Black Friday is 27 November: a three-week countdown for a shop that cannot go down
The numbers behind Black Friday 2026, what fails first under a shopping spike, and a week-by-week plan from today to Cyber Monday.
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DNS is the single point of failure nobody monitors: lessons from SkyBell, Marketo, Facebook and Dyn
Four outages, one cause. How DNS fails, from a lapsed renewal to a lost provider, and the six controls that keep your name resolving.
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How often should uptime monitoring check your site? One minute, five minutes, and what each one misses
The check interval decides how long you are down before you know. The maths, what each interval misses, and how to pick yours.
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Temple's launch-night crash: what a pre-order spike teaches every team
A scheduled crowd, one page that could not grow, and the five things every launch team can take from the night.
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Most DDoS attacks now last under 10 minutes. Here's why that's harder to handle (and what to do)
Why attacks that end in minutes beat human response and five-minute checks, and what to do.
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