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Do I Need a Status Page for a Small SaaS? Honest Answer (2026)
Do small SaaS and indie founders really need a status page? A practical, no-BS guide explaining when a status page helps, when it doesn’t, and how to keep it lightweight in 2026.
Status Page vs Uptime Monitoring: What’s the Difference and Why You Need Both
Status page vs uptime monitoring explained. Learn how they differ, when to use each, and why modern SaaS teams need both to detect outages early and communicate incidents clearly to users.
Privacy-First Web Analytics for Status Pages (Why It Matters and How We Do It)
Learn why privacy-first analytics are essential for status pages, how Status Page supports them, which analytics services are integrated, and why invasive tools like Google Analytics are not permitted.
Free Website Tools - WHOIS, Domain Age, SSL, DNSBL, Email Auth
Run free WHOIS, domain age, SSL, DNSBL, and email auth checks on the public site - then automate them from a free dashboard account with history, permalinks, and cache control.
Why Your CDN Can Return 200 OK When Your App Is Down (and How to Fix Monitoring)
CDNs can serve cached pages or friendly fallbacks and still return HTTP 200, even when your origin is failing. Learn why uptime is not the same as availability, how false positives happen behind Cloudflare/Fastly/Akamai, and how to fix it with a non-cached health endpoint.
What Is a Status Page? The 2026 Practical Guide (With Examples)
A comprehensive, SEO-friendly guide explaining what a status page is, how status page software works, why uptime monitoring matters in 2026, and how to choose between hosted and self-hosted status pages. Includes examples, use cases, comparison tables, FAQ, and People Also Ask keyword sections.
Weekly Product Updates - Week 50
Privacy refresh, a new status page guide, build hardening, and availability metrics polish shipped in Week 50.
Weekly Product Updates - Week 40
Week 40 delivered a new status widget, easier notification testing, and multiple competitor UX improvements.
Self-Hosted vs Hosted Status Pages: Which One Should You Choose?
Should you host your own status page or use a dedicated SaaS like Atlassian Statuspage or HostedStatus.page? Let’s compare the pros, cons, and hidden costs.
How I Stopped Spam Signups with a Custom Honeypot Captcha
I left /register unprotected, got 250+ bot signups, finished an invisible honeypot captcha (gocaptcha) and dropped fake signups to 0.
