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Watchful introduces smarter uptime monitoring with Boost Mode
Watchful introduces smarter uptime monitoring with customizable check intervals, automatic Boost Mode, and improved outage tracking for WordPress and Joomla! websites.
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Uptime monitoring moves in-house with improved privacy and useful features
Watchful has moved uptime monitoring to its own privacy-friendly infrastructure, with new pause and resume controls, five-minute checks, and all the monitoring features agencies rely on.
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Website uptime management added to bulk tools
Quickly fixing a website that goes offline is an important job for anyone managing websites regularly. That’s why monitoring website uptime is one of the central tools at Watchful. Now it is much easier to enable and disable this feature across your entire platform. When would you disable website uptime Read more
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We use Cloudflare on every website we manage. You should too.
Cloudflare is an incredibly powerful tool. When a visitor to your website makes a request to view a page, Cloudflare is the first to intercept it. If your website is a busy intersection in a big city, Cloudflare is the the officer directing traffic. In their role as gatekeeper to Read more
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New dashboard provides global insights and highlights critical website maintenance issues.
Here at Watchful, our goal is to make website maintenance as efficient and reliable as possible. Today were launching the next step in this journey with a new account dashboard that may change the very nature of how you perform website maintenance. Let’s jump right in and preview the account Read more
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Phase 2 of Watchful report improvements: Send scheduled emails
We’re rolling out new features every week for Watchful users. These new features include better notifications, support for more extension updates, backup improvements, and more. However, whenever we talk with you, one word keeps getting repeated: “reports“. You want better reporting options and the ability to automatically send them by Read more
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How to Be 100% Sure Your Website is Online
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
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Watchful Warns You About Expiring SSL Certificates
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
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Fewer uptime notifications with changes to monitoring system
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
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Uptime monitoring launches now live
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