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How to Avoid a Website Crash During High Traffic

March 22, 2019March 22, 2019Site Uptime Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

Black Friday. An unexpected retweet from a celebrity or popular social media personality. An anniversary sale or a giveaway. These are all great things for your business, and opportunities to increase both your clout and your revenue at the same time. Unfortunately, a sudden surge in web traffic — especially if you’re not prepared for […]

The Impact of AI Tools on Business Expenses and Tax Reporting
As you explore the role of AI tools in transforming business expenses and tax reporting, you might notice how these technologies streamline processes and enhance accuracy. By automating mundane tasks, you can reduce human error and gain valuable insights into spending patterns. However, the implications go beyond mere efficiency; they touch on compliance, risk management, …
What website monitoring taught us about running AI systems at scale
Uptime isn’t just for websites anymore Over the past two decades, teams have built a robust culture around keeping websites online. We obsess over page load times, HTTP status codes, and real-time alerts—because a minute of downtime can cost thousands in lost revenue and user trust. Uptime is non-negotiable. But as AI-driven applications become a …
The Hidden Costs of Website Downtime That Most Businesses Never Calculate
When Amazon’s website went down for just 40 minutes in 2013, the company lost an estimated $5 million in sales. That’s roughly $2,000 per second. While most businesses won’t face losses at that scale, the reality is that website downtime costs far more than many companies realize. Most business owners think about downtime in simple …
How to Create a SaaS SEO Strategy That Drives Traffic
This article was written by Sean Begg Flint, founder of Position Digital, an agency that helps B2B SaaS companies grow through SEO. For SaaS businesses, organic traffic isn’t just a nice-to-have — it’s one of the most efficient ways to reduce customer acquisition costs and attract potential customers actively searching for solutions. A solid SaaS …
How Game Development Is Influencing Web and App Performance Standards
It wasn’t long ago that gamers were seen as a niche group. Devoted, yes, but not exactly the standard-setters for the broader tech world. Today, that’s changed dramatically. As game development pushes the limits of what’s possible in real-time responsiveness, cross-platform functionality, and uptime reliability, the rest of the digital landscape is taking notes. From …
Innovative Video Streaming Protocols to Reduce Buffering
Buffering remains a critical challenge in video streaming, frustrating users and degrading the overall quality of experience (QoE). As bandwidth demands surge and streaming scales globally, developing advanced streaming protocols is crucial to overcoming these technical hurdles. This article delves into some innovative video streaming protocols explicitly designed to reduce buffering and enhance streaming reliability. …
Reducing Response Time: Integrating Uptime Monitoring with Internal Tools Using No-Code Platforms
Introduction System downtime isn’t just an inconvenience—it’s a business emergency that directly affects customer experience, revenue, and reputation. While monitoring tools like SiteUptime provide essential visibility into potential issues by detecting outages and performance degradation, the real challenge often begins after an alert is triggered. The question every IT team must answer is: “What happens …
How to Keep Your Static HTML Website SEO Friendly?
So, you’ve built a clean, fast-loading static HTML website. Great start, but here’s the catch: if it’s not SEO-friendly, it might as well be invisible. Static websites require a hands-on approach to SEO. From clean code to crawlable structure, there’s a method to the optimizations. This article walks you through practical and proven ways to …