AuthorColin Bartlett

Colin Bartlett is co-founder of Nimble Industries, creators of StatusGator and Washtub. He has been building web applications, managing software development projects, and leading engineering teams for 22 years.

StatusGator Becomes Climate Neutral Certified: Commitment to Sustainability

statusgator becomes climate neutral certified

We are thrilled to announce that StatusGator is now officially Climate Neutral Certified. This achievement marks a significant milestone in our journey towards a more sustainable and environmentally-conscious future. Months of Dedication in the Process of Certification Over several months, we embarked on an extensive mission to measure, reduce, and offset the carbon footprint associated with our...

25 Best Status Page Examples Showcasing Top Communication Practices

Best status page examples

Status pages are a transparent and effective way to inform users of any downtime or incidents disrupting the company’s service. Without a status page, users are left in the dark, and support tickets pile up, affecting your relationship with them and their trust.  That’s why having a status page is essential for a business in 2023. By showing your current status and incident history or...

Is Northern Virginia Really the Least Reliable AWS Region And Why?

Northern Virginia Reliability

AWS users usually assume that Northern Virginia, also referred to as US East (N. Virginia) and us-east-1, is the least reliable in terms of uptime. We analyzed AWS outage history in 2022 across regions to see if N. Virginia, indeed, had the most downtime. Then we reviewed and proved some of the theories as to why N. Virginia has the most outages. The Data Behind the Study We used our product...

The Most Reliable Educational Platform (LMS) for Schools and K-12 in 2023

To understand the reliability of the popular learning management systems (LMS), we analyzed incident and outage reports from the official status pages for Seesaw, Blackboard, Canvas by Instructure, PowerSchool, Nearpod, and Google Classroom over a one-year period. The Data Behind The Study  We used our own tool, StatusGator, to collect data for analysis. In short, StatusGator aggregates data...

6 Best CloudHarmony Alternatives To Consider in 2023

6 alternatives to cloud harmony by StatusGator

With CloudHarmony retiring on May 15th, 2023, let’s look at CloudHarmony alternatives that can provide you with information on cloud services and help you navigate through comparing one provider to another. What is CloudHarmony? CloudHarmony home page CloudHarmony helped the users to compare cloud services by providing performance analysis. The analysis was available in a variety of formats, such...

7 UptimeRobot Alternatives for Better Incident Communication

UptimeRobot alternatives

What is Uptime Robot?  Uptime Robot demo status page Uptime Robot offers a basic status page with its free plan. Starting from $8 to $64 monthly, UptimeRobot users can access more status page features. The full scope of functionality by Uptime Robot includes: a custom domain and white-labelpassword-protectionstatus page subscriptionsexcluding the status page from indexing. This basic status...

7 Status.io Alternatives for Better Incident Communication

7 alternatives to Status io

What is Status.io? Status.io demo status page Status.io is a platform that provides hosted system status pages. The infrastructure of this provider is run by numerous systems distributed across different locations enhancing the availability of their product – status page. The company stands out among other Status.io alternatives due to enabling users of complete control over their complex...

7 Instatus Alternatives for Better Incident Communication

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What is Instatus? Instatus website With over 19,000 users at the moment, Instatus is one of the most accessible status page providers today. It offers: a free status page planunlimited subscribersa status widget for your websiteand integration with incident management tools like Checkly to automate your public status page. Instatus is also one of the cheapest status page providers. However, if...

7 Cachet Alternatives for Better Incident Communication

Cachet alternatives

What is Cachet? Cachet demo status page Cachet is an open-source status page system that offers individuals and businesses to monitor basic uptime metrics. At the time of writing, Cachet already has over 185 contributors who have worked on 54 releases of the product. Cachet has an intuitive, Bootstrap-based user interface that powers responsive design for desktop and mobile devices. This status...