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Security Monitoring

Uptime Monitoring: The Cheapest Thing You Can Do for Your Website

A site that breaks on Friday evening and is found on Monday was offline for sixty hours. Uptime monitoring turns that into thirty minutes. Here is how to set it up so it actually works.

19 Jul 2026 6 min Read

Managed Websites

What Website Downtime Actually Costs a Small Business

Lost sales are the obvious cost and usually the smallest one. Here is how to work out what website downtime really costs you, including the parts that show up months later.

19 Jul 2026 5 min Read