How We Built Multi-Region Check Consensus on the BEAM
Checks from 3 continents must agree before alerting. Zero external dependencies — just OTP primitives. GenServer-per-monitor, Gun, and pg process groups.
7 Best Free Uptime Monitoring Tools in 2026 (Tested & Compared)
We tested the top free uptime monitoring tools. Compare check intervals, alert channels, false alarm handling, and what each free plan actually gives you.
Why Most Uptime Alerts Are Noise — And How to Fix It
Your phone buzzes at 3am. DNS timeout. By the time you open your laptop, it's already resolved. Here's why consecutive-check confirmation changes everything.
Uptime Monitoring for Indie Hackers — What You Actually Need
You don't need Datadog. You need simple, free monitoring that doesn't wake you up for nothing.
What Is a Good Uptime SLA? 99.9% vs 99.99% Explained
What those nines actually mean in real downtime minutes, and how your monitoring interval affects detection.
How Website Downtime Affects Your SEO Rankings
Google crawl errors during downtime can deindex your pages. Here's how monitoring helps prevent SEO damage.
Why We Chose BEAM for Uptime Monitoring
When your monitoring tool goes down, who monitors the monitor? We chose a runtime that was designed to never go down.
Generate PDFs Without Launching a Browser
Typst generates production-quality PDFs in milliseconds without Puppeteer or wkhtmltopdf. Here's why we use it for invoice generation in 9invoice.