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How to Automate Uptime Display in StatusPage.io via Synthetic Monitors in Datadog in 4 steps
Figuring out how to get an automated uptime display in StatusPage.io from the data that exists in Datadog.
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Inauspicious Start for Oracle Cloud Free Tier Sign up
Oracle Cloud Free Tier offerings I heard via word of mouth and Twitter of a new Oracle Cloud Free Tier (with permanently free services [for now]). The always free services looked enticing enough: The challenge was, “Who can afford ‘free’ services?” Time is worth something. But I can always make use of another cloud server […]
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If 5 nines is a myth, what is 3 nines?
Burned By Gmail Outage? Google Will (Almost) Buy You a Postage Stamp. Apparently the SLA for Google Apps will get you 3 days if uptime dips below 99.9% for the month. At $50 annually for the service, that’s $0.41. (Google has decided to pay out 15 days credit, anyway.) Service credits from the SLA: Monthly […]