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What is Website Maintenance: Your Ultimate Guide to Keeping Your Site Functional

What is website maintenance? Website maintenance is not that different from keeping up with the maintenance of real brick-and-mortar stores. Would you shop at a dirty store, filled with broken furniture, and selling outdated products? We didn’t think so. Website maintenance plays the same role: it makes the business inviting, makes you look professional, and […]

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A Deep Dive into the HTTP 999 Status Code

As mentioned in our ultimate guide to HTTP status codes, HTTP 999 is unofficial, but it still plays an important role in the flow of our online journey in unexpected ways — and here’s why. So what is it for? We all know that the digital highway is held together by something called the Hypertext […]

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HTTP Status Codes Uncovered: Your Ultimate Guide

Did you like our previous blog about domain hijacking? Let’s see if you know all the HTTP codes now.  Decoding HTTP status codes HTTP status codes, typically a sequence of three numbers, are a reply from the server in response to a request made by a web browser. A common example many might recognize is […]

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Top 10 Website Monitoring Tools of 2023

In today’s digital landscape, where websites and online services play a crucial role in businesses’ success, having continuous uptime and optimal performance is of the utmost importance. This is where website monitoring tools come into the picture. Monitoring tools act as our vigilant sentries, constantly watching over our websites, servers, and applications to detect any […]

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What Does 99.999% Uptime Really Mean?

Let’s face it, in today’s always-on digital world, a minute without access to a website or service can feel like a lifetime. You’ve probably heard the term “99.999% uptime” before. It’s an important factor for providers (such as hosting or app providers) and key to improving a website’s reliability and a company’s customer satisfaction. But […]

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Embracing Planned Downtime: Why It’s Crucial For Your Website’s Health

You’ve probably heard plenty of horror stories of unplanned website downtime wreaking havoc on businesses and costing companies thousands or even millions in lost revenue. So if you’re worried, we can’t blame you! Website downtime is usually a nightmare for any company relying on having a steady online presence.  But not all downtime is bad. […]

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The Biggest Website Outages of All Time

  As much as we all love the internet and everything it offers, we’ve also all experienced that sinking feeling when we try to access our favorite website, only to find it’s down.  If you run your own site, you know that uptime is crucial for your online success — so that sinking feeling in […]

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The 6 Hidden Costs of Downtime

You likely already know how important it is to have a reliable website for your business — After all, your website is often the first point of contact between your company and potential customers.  And if that website is not accessible or functioning properly, you could be missing out on some key opportunities to grow.  […]

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6 Common Reasons for Website Downtime (and how to fix it)

As a website owner, there’s nothing worse than seeing a potential sale slip through your fingers because of a site outage. Imagine a customer eagerly browsing your online store, ready to make a purchase they’ve been eyeing for weeks. And then … the site won’t load. How quickly do you think those potential customers will […]