There are a few AWS-native ways to get notified when your instance shuts down, but there are alternatives to consider.
Maintenance windows for checks, and more
Things can get pretty hectic as a small team working on your own web service. Let's discuss ways to make the anxiety of letting your business run itself go away.
Learn curl from scratch, the command-line tool for transferring data. Our guide covers GET and POST requests to APIs, saving outputs, and setting custom headers.
A look back on the new features that became available in 2024, and what's coming next
That moment when I realized 99% of my compute time is spent on waiting around.
Custom logos and favicons for status pages.
Getting back into the flow of things.
Things don't always go to plan, but status pages got better.
Manage incidents better, and further plans for status pages
In April I integrated incident.io, added external status pages, and fixed bugs.
In March I made it possible to manage status pages through the API, added reminder alerts, and more.
Teams don't just create runbooks out of thin air, let's learn how to first write our own runbooks, and the improve on them
This article describes the various reasons a website can go down, ways to check if your website is currently down, and how to monitor your website long term.
On adopting OpenAPI schemas, exposing result metadata, and more.
You don't have to rely on a third party to have your own API docs, read on to learn how.
Going into the strategies I used to acquire OnlineOrNot's first paying customers
Dark mode for Status Pages, faster loading, and more.
Cron job and scheduled task monitoring, on-call integrations, and more.
Ever wonder how an uptime monitoring company uses its own software to monitor its website?
AWS Lambda is supposed to mean great scalability, but what happens to your database as you scale?
You know keeping WordPress and its plugins updated is important, but the last thing you need is downtime. Luckily, it's avoidable.
Your domain name is the foundation on which your entire online presence is built, so let's learn how to avoid losing it.
Lessons learned from the latest us-east-1 outage.
Debunking a common website uptime monitoring myth.
Adding multiple Slack integrations, removing teammates, and more.
'Error 503 Service Unavailable' is a terrible error message. This article teaches you how to do better.
A recent outage of our hosting provider made me re-evaluate how I monitor OnlineOrNot itself.
Details about onlineornot - a new CLI for managing uptime checks.
This time two years ago, OnlineOrNot was born. Here's what I learned in the second year of running the business.
Alerts can be useful to let you know something's wrong with your product, but they can quickly become overwhelming if you don't manage them. This article shows you how you can take back control.
My secret to releasing several products and writing a book in a few years? Ship every day.
On how I was testing a feature and accidentally caught a rare hacker news outage
Your AWS bill is huge, credits running out - what if your entire serverless workload could be significantly cheaper?
This time last year, OnlineOrNot was born. Here's what I learned in the first year of running the business.
AWS's us-east-1 region went down, temporarily taking OnlineOrNot's uptime check service with it. Here's what we learned.
You're getting dozens of alerts each hour, and you're pretty sure you can ignore most of them. But what if one of them was legit? This article helps you improve your error alerting.
You might be asking yourself 'do people still self-host their databases'? Let's discuss the benefits of managed-services versus self-hosting, to help you decide.
As developers, we can *definitely* do better than 'Error 503 Service Unavailable' when it comes to error messages. This article shows you how.
As someone running a website for a global audience, you might be confused about where to host your website. This article has answers.
You've probably noticed a high First Contentful Paint result while testing with Google Lighthouse or PageSpeed Insights - the question is, how do you reduce it? This article has answers.
Confused about why VPS plans are cheaper than Shared Hosting, and when you'd want to use one over the other? This article has answers.
TTFB, FCP, LCP, TTI, WTF? Google Lighthouse involves quite a bit of jargon, so let's unravel it all.
Every 100ms slower that your site responds, costs you 1% of your revenue. Here are ten ways you can fix that.
Chances are, your monitoring service sends you alerts. Where you choose to send them can have a big impact on your team's ability to respond to them.
In 2018, building a similar SaaS (involving payment and email integrations) would take over a month. In 2021, it took me one week.
Migrating between Wordpress hosting providers is complicated as it is - the last thing you need is downtime. Luckily, it's avoidable.
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