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.
Going over the various ways to check if your website is online.
Lessons learned from the latest us-east-1 outage.
Debunking a common website uptime monitoring myth.
Adding multiple Slack integrations, removing team mates, 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.
Things can get pretty hectic as a solo founder working on your own service. Let's discuss ways to make the anxiety of letting your business run itself go away.
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.
Ever wonder how an uptime monitoring company uses its own software to monitor its website?
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.
It's been 8 months of building OnlineOrNot, here's an update of how the last two months went.
Just over six months ago I started OnlineOrNot by building an MVP in a single week sprint. Here's an update on how it's going.
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.
Just over two months ago I started OnlineOrNot by building an MVP in a single week sprint. Here's an update on how it's going.
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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