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Creating Message Templates in OnPage

Learn how to create and configure a message template in OnPage to make critical communication faster, more consistent, and easier for your team. OnPage message templates are predefined message formats that help teams standardize frequently used communications without having to compose every alert or message from scratch, and can be pulled up on both web message dispatcher and OnPage's phone app. In this step-by-step tutorial, we show you how to navigate to Settings then Template, create a new message template, and configure the information users will see when that template is selected.

Suppressing OnPage Notifications During Maintenance

Learn how to suppress OnPage notifications during a scheduled maintenance window so your on-call team isn’t unnecessarily alerted while planned work is underway. OnPage’s Suppress Notifications option temporarily prevents notifications from being sent during a defined period. This is especially useful during scheduled maintenance, planned downtime, testing, or other known activities that could otherwise generate unnecessary alert noise.

How Facilities Management Supports Business Continuity and IT Resilience

When organizations build business continuity plans, they usually focus on software backups and cyber threats, while ignoring the physical building itself. But a single power fluctuation, HVAC failure, or roof leak can shut down critical IT assets just as fast as a digital attack. Facilities management bridges the gap between physical infrastructure and digital uptime. This guide breaks down how proactive building systems protect your technology, minimize expensive operational disruptions, and turn theoretical recovery plans into daily operational defense.

How to Build a Self-Improving Operations System in 5 Steps

With AI agents and AI-generated code becoming the norm in modern enterprise software, backend systems are evolving faster than ever. And it’s leaving most operations teams with an impossible choice: burn out senior talent on repetitive firefighting, or hand production over to untrained AI agents. With disruptions costing enterprises an average of $300,000 per hour, manual firefighting isn’t an option.

Sending HighPriority Messages from OnPage's Dispatcher

See how OnPage Dispatcher helps teams centralize and streamline time-sensitive communication. In this demo, a request is created in Dispatcher, routed to the appropriate on-call specialist, and tracked through acknowledgment and response. We also show how the communication is bi-directional, and responses can be seen within the dispatcher, with a complete audit trail.

Proofpoint outage on August 14, 2026: DNS failure disrupts email worldwide

A DNS failure at Proofpoint broke email delivery for organizations around the world on August 14, 2026. Records for pphosted.com stopped resolving, so inbound and outbound mail routed through Proofpoint bounced or stalled for nearly four hours. StatusGator flagged the incident with an Early Warning Signal at 12:48 UTC, about an hour before Proofpoint acknowledged it publicly on its status page at 13:50 UTC. Here is what happened, who it hit, and how some teams kept mail moving.

The August 13, 2026 Namecheap Outage

Namecheap took more than 5,000 servers offline on August 13, 2026 after cooling systems failed at RadiusDC's Phoenix datacenter, and brought services back in stages over roughly 28 and a half hours. The shutdown was deliberate, intended to protect hardware from overheating. It reached most of the product line - hosting, EasyWP, Private Email, DNS management, URL redirect management and the support helpdesk - while DNS zone resolution was unaffected.

Creating an AfterHours OnCall Schedule

Learn how to create and configure an **on-call schedule in OnPage** with this step-by-step how-to guide. In this video, we walk through how to select a group, create a new schedule, assign on-call team members, set escalation priority, and configure coverage for specific days and times. Using OnPage’s on-call scheduling capabilities, teams can ensure the right responders are automatically available for critical alerts, incidents, messages or calls during designated coverage periods, including after-hours, weekends, and other shifts.