Here at Watchful, we are big fans of Akeeba Backup. And we know what many of you are too. We found that over 63% of sites on Watchful also use Akeeba! Akeeba is the most popular way to backup Joomla sites. In fact, it’s the top-rated Joomla extension. So we Read more
Your website should be online. And if your website isn’t online, you should know about it instantly. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to check if your site is down. When people think about downtime, they often think about their server and their hosting company. But in reality, things are more Read more
Here at Watchful, we help our customers maintain over 40,000 sites. Many agencies do maintenance work to keep those sites managed. Similarly, our goal is to save you time and money by making site management as easy as possible. This week we got an email from a happy customer. Their Read more
This week, we got a message on the Watchful Facebook page: Yes, it’s true: Watchful will notify you about expiring SSL certificates. There are tons of useful Watchful features that we don’t talk about often, and this is one of them. If your SSL certificate expires, it’s as bad as Read more
Website developers and owners must remain vigilant to the emerging threats in Joomla and its ecosystem of extensions and templates. Use the Joomla security resources below to learn the best methods of building and maintaining safer websites. 1. Joomla security checklist The Joomla Security Checklist is the perfect place to start when Read more
Today we are excited to share a small but useful feature for your Joomla dashboard — improved support for Cloudflare. The new feature dramatically reduces the number of Watchful-generated false-positive alerts that the IP Address of your Cloudflare-enhanced website(s) server has changed. By whitelisting Cloudflare IP Addresses, Watchers can now Read more
In our efforts to enhance the Watchful service, we integrated Uptime Robot’s website uptime monitoring capabilities last spring. Uptime Robot has proven to be exceptionally reliable, promptly providing alerts for downtime within a mere one-minute interval. While the inclusion of Uptime Robot greatly bolstered Watchful’s functionality, we carefully considered the Read more
We are excited to share the wonderful news that our advanced uptime monitoring launches, which were initially developed in the Watchful labs, have successfully graduated and are now available for all Watchers. With great improvements and enhancements, the new monitoring system is a significant upgrade from its predecessors. Previously, we Read more
Here at Watchful, our Chief technology Officer and co-founder Pierre-André Vullioud always has something cooking in the laboratory. New developments undergo rigorous research, development, and internal testing on our staging server after initial work on the dev server. Once we have a stable feature, we transfer updates to the production Read more
Today we are thrilled to officially announce the ability to control email notifications in your Watchful Dashboard. First, in your dashboard you’ll now find the ability to choose additional email(s) to receive email notifications from Watchful. See also our step-by-step instructions for further details. This lets you enable team-wide alerts Read more