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Practical guides and explainers on website outages, uptime monitoring, DNS, HTTP status codes, and how to tell when a service is really down. From the team behind Down For All Or Just Me.
- Best Practices 6 min read
What a Good Status Page Should Tell You (And What Most Get Wrong)
The difference between a status page that's actually useful during an outage and a marketing page pretending to be one — from a monitoring service that reads hundreds every day.
- Explainer 7 min read
DNS Outages: A Beginner's Guide to the Internet's Address Book
DNS is the invisible layer that turns domain names into IP addresses. When it breaks, everything breaks. Here's how it works and why it fails.
- Explainer 5 min read
HTTP Status Codes Explained: What 404, 500, and 503 Actually Mean
A quick, plain-English guide to the HTTP status codes you'll see when a website is having problems — and what each one tells you about who's at fault.
- Explainer 8 min read
Why Websites Go Down: The 7 Most Common Causes
From DNS misconfigurations to certificate expiry, DDoS attacks, and cloud-provider outages — the real reasons popular sites go dark, explained clearly.
- Guide 6 min read
How to Check if a Website Is Down (For Everyone or Just You)
A step-by-step guide to figuring out whether a website is actually down or the problem is only on your end — with the exact checks that take under 60 seconds.