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Blacklisted again? Why does this keep happening to me?!

Previously, we have introduced one of the “Check site instantly ” board functions - DNSBL - which helps you find out whether your server is blacklisted before it gets out of control. We’re happy to announce that this tool has just got even more awesome! Now you can use our DNSBL check tool as a one-time job or on a regular basis. It means you can keep your IP address in a continuous check against dozens of popular blacklists.

What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?

Application performance management (APM)—sometimes referred to as application performance monitoring—is used to refer to monitoring tools that allow IT, developers, and business leaders to monitor their backend application architecture to resolve performance issues and bottlenecks in a timely manner.

Monitor Password Protected Websites for Changes

We’re excited to announce that ChangeTower users can now monitor specific sub-sections of web pages with our new partial-page monitoring tools and visual change detection engine. Our users will now be able to utilize the full power of the ChangeTower engine to monitor specific sub-sections of web pages for a user-selectable degree of change.

RFP Alerts: Get Notified When Websites Publish New Requests for Proposals

There is a tremendous administrative burden places on businesses that rely on responding to (and winning!) RFPs for new business. Not only do you have to go through the painful process of filling out long applications and endure long wait times, it’s also extremely hard to stay on top of if / when new business is put out to bid.

Email Notifications from Understand.io

Built specifically for Laravel, Understand.io is a very powerful tool used by hundreds of developers to stay on top of their application’s health. In addition to performing live search and analysis on your log data, you can also set up custom alerts. Alerts can be used to automatically send a variety of notifications via email, Slack or a webhook when something important takes place in your application.

Calling for Backup: Introducing Teams

We're excited to announce that Dead Man's Snitch is now easier to use with your entire team. Gone are the days of sharing a single login or using a shared mailing list for alerts. Now, everyone on your team can have their own login and personalized alert settings. Using Slack or PagerDuty and don't need emails? You can now opt out of email alerts as well.

From DigitalOcean to Linode to Google Cloud Platform: the Evolution of healthchecks.io Hosting Setup

In this article I will look at the current hosting setup of healthchecks.io, how it has evolved during the past two years, and what challenges I faced running this small but lively service.

Perhaps your IP-address is already blacklisted but you don't even know...

Are you sure that your domain isn’t currently listed with some anti SPAM-database? We recommend you to check this out! As you can be one of those who accidentally fall into being blocked due to spreading spam, malware, viruses or just having dangerous, illegal or prohibited content (links to such content) hosted on their pages.