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20 Third-Party Services Every SaaS Should Monitor, Grouped by What Breaks
Your servers can be green while customers can’t pay, log in, or receive a password reset. The problem is usually a vendor you depend on, and you often hear about it from support tickets first. The 20 services below are grouped by the impact of their failure, starting with application availability and moving through login, ...
What Uptime Monitoring Can and Can’t Detect on a WordPress Site
Your WordPress website is online, but customers are reporting problems with checkout. Your uptime monitor hasn’t sent a single alert. That’s because website availability and website functionality aren’t the same thing. A page can load successfully while its forms, plugins, or checkout process aren’t working. Here’s what uptime monitoring can detect on a WordPress or ...
20 Third-Party Services Every E-commerce Store Should Monitor
An e-commerce store can lose sales without going offline. A payment processor might stop accepting transactions, a shipping API might fail to return delivery options, or a tax calculation service might prevent customers from completing checkout. Meanwhile, the storefront itself continues to work normally. These failures can be difficult to spot if you’re only monitoring ...
Inside PHP2Shell: Why Websites Took Themselves Offline
If you tried to log in to DigiD, check a French prefecture’s website or read the news on Tweakers on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, you probably got an error page. Nothing had crashed. Governments, hospitals, news sites and hosting companies took their own websites offline, on purpose, while they waited for a fix to two ...
Inside the Google Cloud London Outage That Took Down Revolut
Did you have trouble paying for your coffee with your Revolut card on Tuesday morning? It wasn’t just you. On October 20, 2026, Revolut’s app and cards stopped working for customers across Europe. Card payments and card top-ups failed, and by 10:08 UTC Revolut’s UK status page listed 30 services as partially unavailable. The problem ...
The Black Friday Outage Risk Lasts Longer Than You Think
Black Friday and Cyber Monday get most of the attention during the holiday season, but they don’t define the full risk window. UptimeRobot and IsDown (recently acquired by UptimeRobot) data from the last two Black Friday periods shows that problems can keep coming after the dates everyone has circled on the calendar. For 2026, that ...