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Website Monitoring Tips & Guides
Expert articles on uptime monitoring, server reliability, alert strategies, and infrastructure best practices.
Oct 21, 2026
It's Time to Prevent: A Nasty PHP RCE Is Coming
Two critical PHP remote code execution flaws (CVSS v4.0 9.2) are getting an emergency patch. Here's what to do before and after it lands.
Sep 26, 2026
Introducing User Experience Monitoring: See How Real Visitors Experience Your Site
StatusEagle now tracks real visitor traffic, Core Web Vitals, and JS/HTTP errors — not just uptime. Here's what's new and why it matters.
Sep 19, 2026
How to Set Up Call Alerts for Your Monitors in StatusEagle
Email and Slack notifications are easy to miss during an incident. StatusEagle can call your phone directly when a monitor goes down — here's how to connect a provider and turn it on for a monitor.
Sep 10, 2026
Proxy vs. Reverse Proxy: What's the Difference and Why It Matters
A proxy sits in front of clients and makes requests on their behalf. A reverse proxy sits in front of servers and routes incoming requests to the right backend. Same word, opposite direction — here's how each actually works.
Aug 21, 2026
What Is Caddy? The Web Server That Automates SSL Certificates
Caddy is a web server that gets HTTPS working out of the box, obtaining and renewing SSL certificates automatically instead of making you run certbot or babysit cron jobs.
Aug 18, 2026
HTTP QUERY: A Draft Method That Reads Like GET, Sends Like POST
QUERY is a new HTTP method still in draft at the IETF. It is strictly read-only like GET, but lets you send a request body with the same flexibility as POST.
Aug 17, 2026
HTTP Request Methods Explained: GET, POST, and the Rest
GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS — what each HTTP method actually does, and why the one your monitor uses matters.