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Monitoring WordPress Sites — What Breaks, and How to Catch It

WordPress runs over 40% of the web and fails in WordPress-specific ways. Keyword checks, wp-cron heartbeats, defacement detection and xmlrpc abuse.

6 min read maintenance status-page

Maintenance Windows Done Right — Planned Downtime Without the Panic

Planned maintenance shouldn't look like an outage. Picking windows, pausing monitors, 503 + Retry-After, SLA carve-outs and a comms template that works.

6 min read heroku migration

Heroku's Free Tier Is Gone — A Migration Checklist That Doesn't Break Production

Heroku's free dynos and Postgres shut down November 28. Where hobby projects are moving (Render, Fly.io, Railway, a VPS) and how to cut over safely.

6 min read uptime monitoring

Ping vs HTTP Checks — What "Up" Actually Means

Ping succeeds while your site serves 500s; HTTP returns 200 while the page is broken. What ICMP, TCP, HTTP and browser checks each prove, and when to use them.

6 min read http status-codes

HTTP Status Codes Through a Monitoring Lens — What Should Actually Page You

Not every non-200 is an outage and not every 200 is fine. Which HTTP status codes should page you, how to handle 503s and redirects, and the soft-200 trap.

6 min read uptime monitoring

What Is Uptime Monitoring? A Plain-English Guide for Website Owners

What uptime monitoring is, how HTTP checks work, which interval to pick, where alerts should go, and what downtime really costs a small business.

6 min read uptime performance

Monitoring During Traffic Spikes — Your Site Slows Down Before It Falls Down

Traffic spikes rarely kill a site without warning; response times drift first. Reading capacity signals and monitoring under load during 2020's surge.

6 min read performance monitoring

Slow Is the New Down — Why Performance Is Availability

Users abandon slow sites long before a timeout, and degradation usually precedes outages. Why response-time trends belong in your uptime monitoring.

6 min read spa javascript

Monitoring Single-Page Apps: When 200 OK Means Nothing

SPAs return 200 with an empty shell even when a JavaScript error blanks the page. Why classic uptime checks miss SPA failures, and what catches them.

5 min read monitoring uptime

Website Monitoring vs. Server Monitoring: Why Green Dashboards Lie

Nagios says CPU and disk are fine, yet a visitor overseas sees a timeout. Why external website checks catch what server agents cannot.

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