As you may have seen, we launched Scanfully last week, and the feedback we’ve received has been overwhelmingly positive. We wondered how people would respond after building in our little bubble for over a year.
A feature we’ve gotten a lot of questions about is our WordPress Uptime Monitor. Because, as it so happens, Cloudflare had some intermittent outages the day after our launch. And customers were reporting that our Uptime Monitor seemed a bit trigger happy as they were comparing them to similar services.
Seemed. Because in the end, we were reporting accurately. But it can be a bit confusing as to why that is.
So, let me explain how our WordPress Uptime Monitor differs from others.
What are you pinging?
Any uptime monitor basically does nothing more than ping a particular website. You check for an HTTP status of 200, and if it’s not that, you’re not up. In essence, it’s that simple.
But is it?
Of course not. Because if your registrar, your hosting, and your Cloudflare settings are implemented with the goal to raise your cache hit ratio to the max, you’re going to be caching everything heavily where we can.
Your pings are most likely reaching something cached somewhere along the connection.
Our uptime monitor takes this caching behavior into account when it pings your site.
That said
Some of your feedback showed us how to improve our uptime monitor and its reporting. Those improvements are coming in a future update.
Alongside some other improvements that help us bypass caching on the entire connection from our pinging service to your website, we’ll soon have an even more feature rich uptime monitor for WordPress.
Notifications everywhere
The second feature we received a lot of questions about was our notifications. Specifically, about two channels that were missing: Slack and Pushover.
Since they were already high on our priority list, we’ve decided to implement both channels this week.
So as of today you can receive your notifications by email, Slack, Discord, and Pushover.
And with that, we’re onto building our Vulnerability Scanner and Content Health scan. In any case, do let us know what you’d like us to add as well. We’re not building Scanfully for us, we’re building it for you!
If you haven’t yet, btw, do create an account and check us out.
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