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Add an Uptime Badge to Your GitHub README

PingBase now generates embeddable SVG badges showing your monitor's live uptime percentage. One line of Markdown, always current — add it to your README, docs, or website.

Read → 4 min read New feature

Custom Domain Status Pages: Use status.yourcompany.com

Your status page should live on your domain, not ours. PingBase Pro now lets you serve it at status.yourcompany.com — one CNAME record, SSL handled automatically, live in minutes.

Read → 4 min read New feature

Heartbeat Monitoring: How to Know When Your Cron Jobs Fail

Cron jobs fail silently — no error page, no alert, no trace. Heartbeat monitoring catches them. If your job stops pinging PingBase, you get an alert. Here's how to set it up with code examples.

Read → 6 min read Monitoring

Invite Your Team: Shared Dashboards in PingBase

PingBase now supports team member invites. Everyone on your team sees the same monitors and incidents — no more forwarding alert emails or sharing login credentials.

Read → 3 min read New feature

Multi-Region Monitoring: How PingBase Eliminates False Positives

PingBase now checks your URLs from multiple regions simultaneously. Your site is only marked down when multiple locations confirm it — no more 3am alerts for blips that resolve in seconds.

Read → 5 min read New feature

SSL Certificate Monitoring: The Complete Guide (2026)

SSL certificate monitoring automatically tracks expiry dates and alerts you before they cause outages. How it works, what to look for in a tool, and how to set it up in minutes.

Read → 7 min read SSL monitoring

Slow Is the New Down: Response Time Threshold Alerts

Your site can be up and broken at the same time. PingBase now alerts you when response times exceed your threshold — catch degraded performance before users notice.

Read → 4 min read New feature

Webhook Alerts: Connect PingBase to Anything

PingBase now sends downtime alerts to any webhook endpoint. PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Zapier, or your own on-call system — if it accepts HTTP POST, it works.

Read → 4 min read New feature

SSL Certificate Expiry: The Silent Killer of SaaS Trust

SSL certificate failures aren't caused by sophisticated attacks. They're caused by forgetting to check a date. Here's why they keep happening and how automated monitoring prevents them entirely.

Read → 5 min read SSL monitoring

Uptime Monitoring Best Practices for Indie Hackers

Most indie hackers set up uptime monitoring wrong — or not at all. The "not at all" group finds out their product is down from a frustrated user in their DMs. Here's how to actually do it right.

Read → 6 min read Best practices

How to Set Up a Status Page for Your SaaS in 5 Minutes

Every SaaS goes down eventually. The question is whether your customers find out from you or from an angry tweet. A public status page fixes this — and setup takes about five minutes.

Read → 5 min read Tutorial

Why We Built PingBase

I was paying $29 a month to know when my website went down. That's it. The landscape hadn't changed in years — every option felt designed to extract money from businesses with no real alternative. So we built one.

Read → 8 min read Company

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