[January 24, 2021] The SMART test warnings are part of our Drive Health Monitor, and they would let you know if the SMART test performed on your server is failing for one or more drives. These SMART test warnings used to be enabled if you had enabled either of the “Drive Error Warnings” or “Drive […]
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UCEPROTECT-Level3
[January 19, 2021] This is an informative note regarding the “UCEPROTECT-Level3” blacklist. This particular blacklist, as per the description on their own website, should not be used lightly to block traffic, as this RBL blacklists entire ASN or even entire hosting providers, and by using this RBL you are surely going to block legitimate traffic […]
Changes to our Uptime Monitoring Network
[October 22, 2020] We’re posting this announcement publicly as well, however all of the affected users have already been emailed regarding these changes. If you have not whitelisted our Uptime Monitoring IPs in your firewall, then no action is needed on your part, you can safely ignore the rest of this announcement. However, if you […]
‘Featured Clients’ on our website
[July 22, 2015] Along with the new website design we’ve introduced ‘featured clients’ on our home page, a place where we’ll feature some of our clients that agree to it beforehand. If you have a company or work for one, and you’re using our platform to monitor your IPs and/or uptime and you’d like to be […]
Required activity increased from 30 days to 90 days + Basic package discontinued
[June 19, 2020] We’re drastically increasing our required activity period from every 30 days to every 90 days, which should give all of our free users a lot more room, not having to log into their dashboard every 30 days but at least once every 90 days now, in order to keep their free accounts […]
ADDTrust Root Certificate Expired Triggering Downtime Notifications
[May 30, 2020] On 30th of May 2020, at around 10:50 AM (UTC), our system has started detecting an unusually high number of downtimes, and upon further investigation, we’ve discovered that quite a lot of the monitored websites were having SSL issues. This was caused due to the ADDTrust Root Certificate expiring and in turn invalidating a […]
Changes to our Uptime Monitoring Network
[April 6, 2020] We’re posting this announcement publicly as well, however all of the affected users have already been emailed regarding these changes. If you have not whitelisted our Uptime Monitoring IPs in your firewall, then no action is needed on your part, you can safely ignore the rest of this announcement. However, if you […]
krn.korumail.com – Unresponsive & Disabled
[March 5, 2020] This RBL has become unresponsive a few days ago and it does not seem to come back online. We’re currently disabling it from our system. If/when it will come back online and will maintain its stability, we’ll re-enable on our platform.
Abusix blacklists added to HetrixTools
[February 5, 2020] The following Blacklists from Abusix have now been added to our Blacklist Monitoring system: If any of your monitored IPs or Domains are blacklisted on these RBLs, they will appear as such in your HetrixTools dashboard and notifications after the next automatic checkup. Please report any issues that you may find in regards to […]
nsZones – Down & Removed
[November 27, 2019] nsZones RBLs have gone offline, which has caused some false positive ‘delisting’ notifications before our mitigation system kicked in. We’ve now removed these RBLs from our system: bl.nszones.com dyn.nszones.com sbl.nszones.com ubl.nszones.com You can safely ignore any of the last notifications regarding these RBLs.