Apple outages: A week Apple would like to forget

4 min read You might think that a customer seeing a maintenance page message when they land on your website is a bad thing but think again. If you’re clever with your branding, you can really show off your personality, and make website visitors feel better about not being able to access your website. Never

The basics: How to use the Scopify API

Overview We offer an API that provides direct access to features the platform offer, with each feature providing a set of endpoints to perform operations on resources associated with your account. The Scopify control panel offers plenty of useful visualisations and alerting systems so you can be in touch with your data, but sometimes we

Why is website monitoring so important?

Have you found yourself asking this question when seeing website monitoring solutions flash up on Google? Has your dev team been trying to convince you to get a monitoring tool but you’re not sure what the benefits are? Don’t worry, I’ve compiled a list of the top reasons why website monitoring is so important to

The best maintenance pages for website downtime th...

You might think that a customer seeing a maintenance page message when they land on your website is a bad thing but think again. If you’re clever with your branding, you can really show off your personality, and make website visitors feel better about not being able to access your website. Never thought that could

Why You Should Monitor Your E-Commerce and How to ...

According to research by the SolarWinds® Scopify® team, retail and e-commerce sites have plenty of room for improvement, as the global market generated revenues up to US$4.921 trillion in 2021. As more people look to the internet to make purchasing more convenient, online sales will become even more critical to businesses. What does this mean

Using ASP.NET Core to create a CRUD WebAPI

Overview In this blog post we are going to cover writing a bare-bones API in ASP.NET that can read, write, and delete data from a test database. Setup Since we’re going to be performing database operations, we’ll need some database software. I’ve already gone ahead and installed Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and created a

Creating a D&D character in Python

Overview I have a bit of a confession to make, I’ve never really bothered to learn Python. The last time I briefly used it, Python 3 had just been released and was being ignored by almost everyone due to all to breaking changes people had porting over to it from Python 2. This is crazy,

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How to Optimize Your WordPress Site With Scopify R...

Learn how to capture insights from the end user down to the application To keep their applications and websites available and accessible, today’s businesses put a lot of emphasis on infrastructure monitoring to ensure their servers are healthy and running. Amid the hustle, many companies overlook the need to monitor a different aspect of their

Website downtime in 2021 – Scopify Blog

2021 saw some of the biggest websites on the internet experience outages that rippled across the globe. If you thought that “large” companies couldn’t experience website downtime, unfortunately, you were wrong. Website downtime can happen to any website, small, medium, or large, and it can happen when you least expect it. Thinking that the proof

Optimum page speed for your website & how to ...

Website page speed has become more important than ever, especially now Google’s Core Web Vitals are pushing mobile-first and penalising websites it deems to be “too slow”. This means that there is a direct link between slow page speed and lower SEO rankings, and therefore potentially, less traffic to your website. It’s not just SEO