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Notes on methodology, infrastructure, and what the data shows.
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08 Sept 2026
The endpoint you monitor decides the outage you can detect
An audit of our own leaderboard found 17 of 50 services that could not have recorded an outage if one happened. The cause was not a bug. It was a reasonable rule meeting a badly chosen URL, and the same combination is probably in your monitoring too.
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11 May 2026
What 99.99% uptime actually buys you
A practical guide to reading cloud SLAs: the math behind "the nines", the four ways vendors quietly reshape the denominator, and what to look at instead of a single headline number.
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08 May 2026
Why independent uptime measurement matters
Provider status pages are structurally unreliable. Here is what independent measurement looks like and why it matters for engineers picking infrastructure.
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