When Everyone Goes Down, StatusGator Has to Stay Up
A status monitoring service going down during an outage isn't just ironic — it's catastrophic. StatusGator monitors 8,000+ services so IT teams stay ahead of third-party failures. But one Cloudflare outage exposed what Colin, CEO and co-founder, had suspected all along: a single CDN is a single point of failure, and for StatusGator, failure isn't an option. After migrating to IO River's multi-CDN platform and Checkpoint WAF, they proved it in the most direct way possible — a live CloudFront outage hit, and StatusGator didn't flinch. The DDoS attacks and malicious traffic that had been slipping through Cloudflare? Gone overnight. Read how a lean team replaced fragility with genuine high availability — without grinding operations to a halt.