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Why single-location checks cause false alarms
Why an uptime check from one place cries wolf, what really fails when it does, and how checking from several cities with a quorum keeps alerts for real outages.
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What a status page is, and how to write incident updates
What belongs on a status page, and how to write incident updates customers trust: the four stages, what each update says, how often to post, and the postmortem.
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TLS certificate expiry monitoring
Why HTTPS certificates still expire by surprise with automatic renewal, what to watch besides the date, and when an expiry alert should reach you.
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DNS monitoring: what to check and why
How DNS breaks a working site, which records to watch, what a resolver's answer tells you, and what a DNS check can and can't catch.
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Uptime alerts on your phone with ntfy
Send BBoxProbe's uptime alerts to your phone or desktop as ntfy push notifications: a webhook channel, ntfy's inline templates, and keeping the topic safe.
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Guides
Guides
Practical know-how for watching websites and servers, useful whichever tool you use. Each guide ends with how BBoxProbe handles it.