StatusCake

StatusCake, a global website monitoring service provider, is based out of London, United Kingdom. The company was established in 2010 and offers a bouquet of website monitoring services to enhance its performance. StatusCake has been in business for more than a decade and boasts of an impressive clientele spread across different verticals. In the last 10 years, the company has extended its services to reputed businesses like BBC Worldwide, Amnesty International, Disney, Australian Government, EA Sports, Grammarly, The Royal Bank of Scotland, and many others.

StatusCake maintains a global network with multiple monitoring centers across the globe. It offers incredible tools to monitor websites at affordable rates and in comparison to its competitors, StatusCake offers greater uptime monitoring features.

StatusCake WordPress Plugin with following services:

Uptime Monitoring: Testing availability of a website from more than 28 countries across the world by using protocols like HTTP, TCP, PUSH, DNS, HEAD, SSH, PING, and SMTP

Server Monitoring: Users are alerted when the custom thresholds for CPU, Disk Usage, and RAM usage are exceeded. Support for Linux server is also available.

Domain Monitoring: Website owners are alerted about the renewal of their domain or when domain name records are changed. Thus, it prevents website owners from losing their domain because of failure to renew or being hijacked by competitors.

Page Speed Monitoring: Users can analyze the loading speed of every page in a website from different locations to identify how it affects the website.

SSL Monitoring: This is the simplest yet the most effective service as it helps users to track if their website is encrypted with an SSL certificate and has the necessary protection. Now, this is one of the most important aspects of any website, especially the businesses websites.

Similar to the other tools, you can set up the checks at regular intervals. The ping service keeps on tracking if the SSL certificates are valid, working normally, and send alerts if they’re due. Renew SSL alerts are extremely useful as website owners never fail to renew their SSL certificates.

Website owners even receive mixed content warnings to inform them if any of the content gets loaded from unsecured connections, even when the primary web pages are secure.

Features:

Apart from a bevy of testing metrics, this monitoring plugin helps website owners to experience the best of the testing tools. Website owners get the opportunity of testing their websites from various locations (6 continents and 29 countries to be precise).

A major chunk of the StatusCake servers are located in Europe and US but the company also has monitoring centers in Asia. You can easily verify this from the company’s website.

A variety of statistics is displayed on the dashboard making it easier for the owners to get a hang of the overall performance of their websites. This facilitates quick and bulk updates of the simple settings using a wide range of tools.

The plugin can also be set to send updates and alerts via SMS, email, and even phone call. The paid plans offer monthly credits. The biggest advantage of this plugin is the reporting tools that facilitate comprehensive and in-depth reporting.

StatusCake offers two different types of reporting:

Public reports: Made for easy viewing of the long-term data accessible from the browser. The public records are available to customers as well as team members. For instance, the uptime logs are available to the public.

Email Reports: These are directed towards informing about the server’s status and other metrics to specific team members or customers.

• StatusCake has a virus monitoring service that alerts website owners on a real-time basis
• The page speed monitoring service analyzes the load time of every page on a website
• Public reporting of unbranded SSL
• Contact group set up to enable account alerts
• Basic authorization tool for gaining access to restricted pages for testing
• PUSH testing for the externally unavailable monitors

9Expert Score

StatusCake WordPress plugin is the ideal companion for your websites, which offers comprehensive uptime, monitoring, SSL monitoring, domain monitoring, server monitoring, page speed monitoring, and virus monitoring. The plugin gives you the opportunity to integrate StatusCake into the WordPress website.

PROS

• Sub Accounts – User accounts can be set to view-only and full-edit, along with the tests that they can view/modify using the test tags.
• Deliver POST data along with the test for filling up the HTML form or other similar tasks
• Website owners never miss the SSL and domain renewal by setting renewal alerts
• Branding and customization of outgoing email reports and alerts for external and internal usage

CONS

• Slow dashboard with a huge number of tests
• Maintains shorter history