Ever wonder how to check if a website is still working, without having to load up the website and manually check every few minutes? In this article, we'll go over the various ways to check if a website is online.

In case you missed it, AWS experienced an outage or "elevated error rates" on their AWS Lambda APIs in the us-east-1 region between 18:52 UTC and 20:15 UTC on June 13, 2023. If this sounds familiar, it's because it's almost a replay of what happened on December 7, 2021, although that outage was significantly more severe and took longer to restore.

A fairly common claim among website uptime monitoring services is that downtime costs $5600 per minute. Chances are, you'll have one of two reactions to this claim: The reality of what downtime costs your business lies somewhere in between. As a company that runs 3.6 million uptime checks per week, we have a bit of insight into the cost of downtime, so if you're curious - read on.

It's a warm afternoon here in Toulouse, I feel like it's as good a time as any to update folks about what's new in OnlineOrNot.