QuickUptime Blog

Practical guides, plain language explainers, and useful tips related to the QuickUptime tool. Written to help, not to fill space.

• Why a website goes down for me but stays up for everyone else

  When a page loads for everyone but you, the cause is usually local. Here is how to find and fix it in minutes.

• How to check if a website is really down: five methods that work

  Five reliable ways to find out whether a site is really down or just down for you, ranked by speed and effort.

• Reading uptime numbers: what 99 percent, 99.9 percent, and 99.99 percent really mean

  What 99 percent, 99.9 percent, and 99.99 percent uptime actually mean in real minutes and hours of downtime.

• Common causes of website downtime, and how to spot them

  Hardware, software, networks, and humans all cause outages. Here are the most common causes and the clues that give them away.

• DNS issues vs server issues: a beginner's guide

  DNS errors and server errors look similar but need different fixes. Here is how to tell them apart and what to do.

• What to do when your favorite site goes down

  A calm step by step plan for when a site you rely on goes down, with backup options and what to save.