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Making Solar Personal: How Families Are Taking Energy Into Their Own Hands

If you ask most people what comes to mind when they hear "solar," you'll probably hear some mix of panels on rooftops, high upfront costs, and vague promises of lower bills. But the reality today is far more exciting-and practical. Solar has shifted from being an abstract idea for "someday" to a clear, reliable way for families to save money, gain security, and worry less about their energy needs.

Financial Risks Associated with Unaddressed Home Issues

Maintaining a home is more than just ensuring that it looks good. It involves handling numerous potential risks that can lead to significant financial burdens. Homeowners often overlook various issues due to negligence or lack of knowledge, leading to costly repairs and decreased property value. Risks multiply when problems remain unaddressed, affecting the immediate functionality of the home and the homeowner's financial stability.

How Businesses Can Upgrade Exterior Features to Boost Curb Appeal

A building's exterior speaks volumes about the business within. Whether it's a storefront, an office complex, or a warehouse, first impressions start long before clients step inside. Clean, well-designed, and functional exterior spaces communicate professionalism, stability, and attention to detail, qualities that attract customers and boost brand perception.

Measuring Clicks Is Not Measuring Productivity: The Misconception Behind "Screen Time" Metrics

In recent years, some organizations have adopted metrics such as inactivity time and the number of clicks to assess productivity. But does this truly reflect how productive an employee is — or merely how closely they are being monitored? At first glance, it might seem like a reasonable approach: if someone goes a long time without clicking, perhaps they’re not working.

Data Centre Colocation: What UK Businesses Need to Know About Costs

As more UK companies go digital, many are missing critical cost factors when choosing colocation data centres, with location, power bills and regulatory compliance proving far more expensive than many anticipate. With insights from Pulsant, a digital edge infrastructure provider, we take a look at true cost of colocation.

We've refreshed and expanded the StatusGator Help Center

We’re excited to share a major update to the StatusGator Help Center — redesigned to make finding answers and learning new features faster and easier than ever. We’ve reorganized our documentation, added new guides, and improved formatting so you can navigate with ease — whether you’re just getting started or managing advanced integrations.

DORA is right: AI is an amplifier, for better or worse

The 2025 DORA report just surveyed nearly 5,000 technology professionals and delivered a verdict that should reshape how you think about AI investment: AI doesn’t create organizational excellence; it amplifies what already exists. For teams with solid foundations, AI is a force multiplier. For teams with broken processes and dysfunctional systems, AI magnifies the chaos.

Grafana Tempo 2.9 release: MCP server support, TraceQL metrics sampling, and more

Grafana Tempo 2.9 is now available, delivering MCP server support, TraceQL performance improvements, and more. Watch the video below to see the Tempo MCP server in action and learn how to speed up TraceQL metrics queries, or continue reading to get a quick overview of these and other updates. The Grafana Tempo 2.9 release notes and changelog provide more in-depth details and include all of the changes that came with this release.

Service disruption on October 20, 2025

When the internet goes down, our primary job is to help everyone get back up, as fast as possible. Of the almost half a million incidents we've helped our customers solve, there are some which stand out for both their scale and impact. One of these happened on Monday, October 20, when AWS had a widely covered major outage in their us-east-1 region, from 07:11 to 10:53 UTC. We’re hosted in multiple regions of Google Cloud and so the majority of our product was unaffected by the outage.