September 2015

09/25/2015

The Social Media World Grumbles as Facebook’s Mobile App Suffers Downtime

When most people think of website downtime, they usually envision ecommerce retailers or large desktop sites that suddenly go dark, but in today’s day and age, both mobile and desktop versions of websites and mobile apps are all hosted for many of the biggest online businesses. While website monitoring is in place for many of the online world’s desktop sites, mobile sites and mobile apps need to be monitored closely as well, as they too can fall prey to the inevitable darkness that we all know as website downtime.

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09/16/2015

Understanding what Server Downtime Is and How to Minimize It

The terms “website downtime” and “server downtime” seem to be used interchangeably for some people, but the fact of the matter is that these two issues are actually very different in nature. Website downtime happens when a website goes down, whether it be due to hackers, traffic overload, software failure, etc. Server downtime, on the other hand, happens when the server that a site is hosted on goes down, due to things like power or hardware failures.

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