Author: Ben Blomberg

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The 10 Most Common HTTP Status Codes

Ever stumbled upon a “404 Not Found” message or heard about a “500 Internal Server Error” and wondered what’s actually going on? These are HTTP status codes, little signals that servers use to communicate with browsers and let us know the status of a request. Some codes let us know

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How to Avoid DNS Outages

It’s extremely important that visitors to your site are able to reach the content they want, and within a reasonable amount of time. DNS monitoring is the first step in ensuring consistent performance and connectivity.

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What is Digital Experience Monitoring: An Overview

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is a key practice that helps businesses ensure their users enjoy smooth interactions with their websites and applications. In this blog post, we’ll explore what DEM is, where to focus your efforts, key benefits, and how Dotcom-Monitor can help you enhance your digital experience. What is

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Guidelines for Choosing a Monitoring Platform

How to Choose an Appropriate Monitoring Platform Choosing the right monitoring platform can feel like finding a needle in a haystack. With a range of options and countless features to weigh, you want to make the best choice for your infrastructure, team, and budget. This guide is here to simplify

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SIP Monitoring Services:  Many Points of Potential Failure

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the backbone of modern communication systems, enabling voice and video calls over the internet. While SIP Voice over IP (VoIP) technology has greatly improved connectivity and quality of service, it also introduces numerous potential points of failure along the path of devices that handle data.

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Network Throttling: Monitor the User Experience

Network Throttling When it comes to monitoring web application performance, not only is it necessary emulate user actions, but also network conditions of end-user devices. Network throttling allows you to control connection speeds to better match the experience of real users, allowing you to see web application behavior in specific

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REST vs. SOAP: Which is Better for Web Services?

Ask two developers whether SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) or REST (Representational State Transfer) is better for accessing web services and you’ll likely get two different answers – and maybe more. It’s a passionate debate, but the reality is that the best solution depends on the application. Let’s take a

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API Monitoring and OAuth 2.0 Authentication

What is OAuth Authentication? A Brief History. OAuth 2.0 Authentication, as explained by oauth.net, is a “delegation protocol that is used for conveying authorization decisions across a network of web-enabled applications and APIs.” OAuth was created in 2006 by developers from Twitter and Ma.gnolia, a social bookmarking site. Ma.gnolia was

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Case Study: LuckyVitamin

LuckyVitamin ensures global uptime and performance for millions of customers with the Dotcom-Monitor platform.   Introduction Founded in 2005, LuckyVitamin is an industry leading global e-commerce destination for health and wellness, natural and organic products, vitamins, nutritional supplements, sports and fitness nutrition, food, beauty, skincare, pet, and natural home. LuckyVitamin offers

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