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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What is Upptime? Upptime demo status page Upptime is an uptime monitoring tool and status page provider. It’s open source and is powered entirely by GitHub. Upptime enables users to schedule workflows to run automatically in pre-set time intervals using GitHub Actions. Upptime checks your website every 5 minutes, and your website status data is reflected on the appropriate status page...
What is Better Uptime? Better Uptime demo status page Better Uptime is a commonly used status page provider that’s also popular for monitoring uptime. However, unlike most other status page providers, Better Uptime combines incident management, uptime monitoring, and status pages into a single product (depending on your plan). Better Uptime offers a free, fully-customizable status page...
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...