How WebsiteDown Detects an Outage: Our Methodology
Every signal behind our up/down verdicts — the layered probe, community reports, anomaly thresholds, official status pages, and the AI source scan — with the actual numbers we use.
DNS propagation, certificate expiry, TLS handshake errors — the silent killers.
Every signal behind our up/down verdicts — the layered probe, community reports, anomaly thresholds, official status pages, and the AI source scan — with the actual numbers we use.
In 2017, one AWS engineer's typo during routine maintenance took down S3 — and with it, Slack, Trello, GitHub, Medium, and thousands of other services. Here's what actually happened.
DNS is the phone book of the internet. Here's how it works, why DNS failures are so disruptive, and what happens during a DNS outage.
Cloudflare powers a significant portion of the internet. When it goes down, thousands of websites fail simultaneously. Here's what you need to know.
Understanding why an Amazon Web Services outage takes down hundreds of major websites simultaneously, and how to prepare your own site.
A site not loading could mean an outage, a regional block, a DNS issue, or a local network problem. Here is how to diagnose which one you are dealing with.