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Branded status page with operational status, component list and 90-day incident history
Guides

How to Create a Status Page: The Complete Guide for Agencies (2026)

From your first status page to a branded client status page: what to communicate, how to post incidents, and how to run a status page on your own domain.

Florian Zaskoku12 min read
Map of Europe with monitoring locations in Germany, Switzerland, Czechia, Poland, Italy and Finland
Data Privacy

Monitoring Data in the EU: Why the Location of Your Polling Nodes Matters

Why EU polling and EU hosting simplify the GDPR case you make to your clients — and what the location of your monitoring nodes has to do with it.

Florian Zaskoku9 min read
Monitoring as a recurring revenue building block inside an agency retainer offering
Agency

From Middleman to Infrastructure Partner: Anchoring Monitoring in Your Retainer

How agencies anchor monitoring as a fixed retainer building block — with pricing logic, plan components, and a script for the client conversation.

Florian Zaskoku10 min read
Alert timeline where the agency reports the outage before the client notices it
Agency

Reduce Churn with Proactive Monitoring: Report the Outage Before Your Client Notices

Monitor client sites proactively and you report the outage first — turning monitoring from a cost line into your agency's strongest retention tool.

Florian Zaskoku9 min read
Table mapping SLA nines to allowed downtime per year, month and week
Engineering

How to Calculate Uptime: What 99.9% Really Means in Downtime

Turn any SLA percentage into real downtime — and learn what the number actually promises in a client contract.

Florian Zaskoku8 min read