Having a Status Page is like having a dog. A dog alerts you to an incident; sudden noise, approaching neighbor, squirrel… A dog sounds the alarm on an intruder. A dog even alerts you to maintenance by barking at every handyman, garbage truck, and gardener within sight. As a dog fetches the same stick over and over, so does a status page fetch the attention of your users – especially during a live incident – with each browser refresh they wait for the status to change.

Chaos theory tells us that disruption strongly relates to time; and that the interval between chaos events either increases or decreases based on the amount of action. It sounds like a complex concept but the internet has managed to prove this theory and make it viral – not Rick Roll viral, more like DogeCoin viral – where profits are instantly influenced by volatile popularity. Inside the internet, speed equals profit so it makes sense to monitor it…but what does that mean?

Oh no. Your website is down. And regardless of what time it is we guarantee it’s not a convenient time for your website to crash. An outage can cause a panicked fight-or-flight response when teams are unprepared for the consequences. One of the worst ways to deal with downtime is to try and wait it out thinking it’ll just magically resolve itself.

External servers need to be monitored but it’s your backend infrastructure that supports them. Looking for a reliable way to monitor your internal networks? You’re in luck! Uptime.com Private Location monitoring is just the tool for you.