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Oh Dear shares hard numbers on how the recent critical PHP vulnerabilities rippled through the ecosystem, with site outages peaking at 18.8 percent and down alerts rising to 25 times the normal level. It is a useful, data-backed snapshot of a chaotic day in PHP land from a monitoring service's point of view.
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A good write-up on the ghost domain problem in DNS: domains removed from a registry can still appear healthy to uptime checkers because recursive resolvers keep stale delegations warm. The Oh Dear team explains the edge case and how they're tightening their resolver setup to reduce that blind spot.
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In this interview, I talk about Laravel, application monitoring, and how AI is changing the way developers work.
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Every page in Oh Dear now works on mobile. Not just slapped-on media queries, but reworked layouts: a floating action button for navigation, dedicated mobile card views for monitor lists, scrollable tables with fade hints, and bigger touch targets throughout. Over 160 Blade templates were touched.
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My Oh Dear co-founder Mattias Geniar was a guest on the WP Legends podcast. They talked about how we built Oh Dear over the past eight years, common misconceptions about monitoring, and how AI is changing developer workflows.
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Mattias shares his insights into what we saw during the outage and our lessons learned.
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I've recently rebuilt the SDK for Oh Dear, and thanks to Saloon I had a great time downing so.
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Recently, people started talking about a malware called “Androxgh0st” specifically targeting Laravel apps. In a recent edition of Securing Laravel, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote a good explanation of how it works. The malware targets apps with APP_DEBUG set to true. When enabled, Laravel will give…
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Whenever Oh Dear detects something wrong with your site, it can send you a notification. We have multiple channels available: Slack, Telegram, webhooks, and many more. The most popular channel our users use is just simple mail.
Behind the scenes, Oh Dear uses Postmark to send emails. Postmark will inform us whenever a notification mail results in a hard bounce. A hard bounce means that the mail won't be delivered. The most common reason for this is that the mailbox doesn't exist (anymore). This can occur when somebody changes jobs, and the work email address no longer exists.
Here's how you can use Oh Dear to show the server status of your app right on your landing page.
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Our friends at Digital With You wrote a detailed case study on how they helped us redesign @OhDearApp They cover rewriting marketing text, choosing new colours, redesigning all pages.
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In this sponsored talk given at Laracon India 2023, I demo all major Oh Dear features. After that, I share how the Laravel app behind Oh Dear is structured using domains.
The audio quality is not perfect, but it should still be understandable.
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I'm very proud that we have added a new check to Oh Dear.
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I'm proud to announce that we have launched a redesigned Oh Dear. If you're unfamiliar with Oh Dear, it's the best all-in-one monitoring tool for your entire website. You can register for a 10-day free trial.
You can help us spread the good news by upvoting us on Product Hunt, or retweeting our launch tweet.
In this blog post, I'd like to share what Oh Dear can do for you, how we've rebuilt various parts, and give you an overview of the technology behind the service.
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One of our goals for this year is to bring the UI of Oh Dear to the next level. Behind the scenes, our team is working hard on a complete rewrite of our marketing website and app.
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Here's a new blog post by our designer Nick on how he's revamping the looks of Oh Dear.
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We are currently rebuilding the Oh Dear website and application frontend. In this post, you'll read more about the project setup and tools used.
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Here's a recap of everything we did in 2021 to make Oh Dear the best all-in-one monitoring service.
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The past few weeks, I had a lot of fun coding up the new DNS check of Oh Dear. In this blogpost, you'll learn why you should monitor your DNS records and how Oh Dear makes this very easy.
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When a site is down, Oh Dear sends a notification every hour. Since last year, our notifications can be snoozed for a fixed amount of time (5 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, one day).
In the evenings and weekends, our users might not want to receive repeated notifications. That's why we've added a nice human touch: all notifications can now be snoozed until the start of the next workday.
In this blog post, I'd like to share some of the code that powers this feature. We'll focus on how the start of the next workday is calculated.
