Practical guides for freelancers and agencies: monitoring, SSL, Cloudflare, WordPress and the business of care plans.
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Cloudflare challenges and bot rules can make a healthy site look down to your monitor. Here is the exact WAF rule that lets Tenium through, and only Tenium.
Read the guideWhen a site is down, the client wants three answers: is it known, what is affected, and when will you say more. A simple structure for incident updates that keeps clients calm.
A client uptime report has one job: show that someone is watching. Here is the short list of things to include, the numbers to leave out, and a plain-English template you can reuse.
A decision guide for agencies and freelancers leaving UptimeRobot: five questions, a cost check at 10, 40 and 100 client sites, and when staying put is the right call.
How the Tenium import works: a read-only API key, a preview, the five monitor types that come across, what plan limits skip, and what you must re-create by hand.
A checklist for the first quarter hour of an outage: confirm it, find the broken layer with five commands, fix the common causes, tell the client, then make sure it cannot go unnoticed again.
Cron jobs fail silently. Add one curl line and get an alert when a backup, import or queue worker does not run, runs late or exits with an error. Includes systemd, Docker and Kubernetes.
Automatic renewal fails more often than people think. Build a hostname inventory, check expiry with one openssl line and set alerts at 30, 14 and 3 days, for certificates and domains.
What to charge, what to promise, a client email template and a margin calculation from real plan prices, for agencies and freelancers who want monitoring as recurring revenue.
Seven ways a WordPress site fails while still looking up: database errors, plugin fatals, dead wp-cron, bad caches, locked logins, expiry and hacks. How to detect and fix each.
Three numbers people mix up. What each one measures, where the data comes from, which thresholds matter, and which tool answers which question, with downtime tables you can quote.
UptimeRobot is still the default, but Team starts at €41. We compare Tenium, Better Stack, Hyperping, StatusCake, Pingdom, Oh Dear, Cronitor and Uptime Kuma for freelancers and agencies.
A step-by-step recovery guide for an expired SSL certificate on a client site: diagnose, renew with Let's Encrypt or your CA, fix the chain, and set up expiry alerts.
How freelancers and agencies turn uptime monitoring into recurring revenue. Tiered care plan examples, what to promise, what not to, and why the monthly PDF report matters more than the monitoring.
A look inside the checker: why one failed request is not an outage, how we re-check from other regions within seconds, and what the incident record contains when we finally alert.
Status code alone misses most WordPress failures. Here are the five external checks that catch database errors, locked-out logins, dead wp-cron, expiring SSL and lapsed domains.
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