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.

23 Facts on GitHub Reliability in 2022: Data Study of Outages by StatusGator

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With over 83 million users, GitHub is one of the most popular development tools out there and the third most monitored service on StatusGator.  Since so many users depend on GitHub, we wanted to analyze GitHub’s reliability in 2022 and find and uncover some interesting facts about GitHub outages.  The data behind this article For our analysis of GitHub’s reliability, we used historical...

7 Statuspage Alternatives for Better Incident Communication

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What is Statuspage.io? Statuspage is a popular status page provider used by thousands of teams to communicate the status of their services. Atlassian acquired Statuspage, a Y-Combinator-backed service, in 2016 and invested significantly in expanding status page features to stand out among Statuspage alternatives.  Overall, Statuspage is a well-established status page software, but it comes...

CircleCI Outages: Have They Kept Their Promises in 2022?

CircleCI promise of reliability analysis by StatusGator

At the beginning of April 2022, a massive disruption in CircleCI caused large portions of their cloud offering to be unavailable for users worldwide. It occurred after CircleCI deployed a change to its front end and an auto-vacuum job on one of its core databases. Due to this outage, CircleCI users were unable to run tests and deploy code. After the incident, CircleCI promised to prevent these...

How Did Slack Perform a Year After the Acquisition by Salesforce

Slack outage report before after Salesforce by StatusGator

Slack is a popular messaging and communication platform used for work, study, groups, and communities. According to Techjury, more than 10 million people used Slack every day in 2022, and 43% of Fortune 100 businesses are paying for Slack subscriptions. On July 21, 2021, Salesforce completed its purchase of Slack for $27.7 billion and announced plans to make Slack an operating unit under...

Private Status Page 101. Best Tools, Providers, and Cost

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What Is a Private Status Page? A private status page is a website or communication platform that provides status updates and notifications to a specific group of people rather than the general public. Private status pages are often used by companies to keep their employees, users, or partners informed about the status of their products, services, infrastructure, vendors, and providers. Public...

What Was the Least Reliable GitHub Feature in 2022

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With over 83 million users, GitHub is one of the most popular development tools out there and the third most monitored service on StatusGator. Since so many users depend on GitHub, we wanted to analyze GitHub’s downtime over the past year and see which GitHub features (i.e., Codespaces, PRs, Actions, etc.) were the least reliable. The Data Behind This Article To evaluate which GitHub features...

The Most Reliable WordPress Hosting Providers. The Study Based on Real Outage Data

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According to data from W3Techs, more than 40% of all websites are built on WordPress. Therefore, it’s no surprise that WordPress hosting has skyrocketed in popularity recently and hosting providers have proliferated. With so many choices, it’s important to understand just how reliable WordPress hosts are, especially when it comes to downtime. Web hosting downtime can have significant consequences...

Status Page Pricing – 22 Most Popular Status Page Tools Cost Reviewed [2023]

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Updated on November 11, 2022. Keeping your customers informed about the status of your website, application, or service is essential nowadays. If you don’t have a status page to communicate this, you’re missing an opportunity to improve transparency and reduce the customer support burden. It is especially true if you are running an online business and your website is your main source of income...