This past March, Apple’s cloud services were knocked off the cloud for some serious cloud downtime amounting to nearly 12 hours. The downtime left millions of users around the globe unable to update apps, make purchases, and install software from the iOS and iTunes Store. Apple’s iCloud services, which include email, were also affected at this time (albeit for a shorter period of time). The brick-and-mortar Apple Stores, which are heavily reliant upon the cloud and the Internet, were left processing old-school credit card impressions instead of utilizing Apple Pay.
Read more →Server downtime is something that is dreaded among website owners. If you don’t own the server your site is hosted on, you have no control over the duration of the outage when the server goes down. If you do own the server, then you’re the one responsible for getting it back up and running. Either way, server downtime equates to a nightmare in terms of website downtime. Here are some things you need to keep in mind whether you own your website’s server or not.
Read more →Here at Alertra we often discuss the fact that if your business is going to hold a major sale, your website better be ready to handle the traffic. Amazon’s recent Prime Day, which was held earlier this week, is a perfect example of how your site can frustrate customers, even if it doesn’t go down for the count in the middle of the sale.
Read more →Does your web hosting provider claim to include a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee with your hosting package? If so, are they holding up to that promise, or are they providing sub-standard service? Furthermore, how do you really know the answer to these questions? If you want to know if your hosting provider’s uptime promise is being kept, you need to know exactly how much downtime your site is experiencing and the reason for any downtime that occurs. The only real way to accomplish these tasks is with a quality website monitoring service.
Read more →When your site goes down, you need to know about it the moment it happens. Better yet, you probably want to be alerted that your website’s performance and stability are having issues before a complete outage of the website occurs. The only possible way to catch website downtime before it happens is to partner with a quality website monitoring service. Why External Website Monitoring?
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