https://statusdetector.com/blog Plain-English explainers on how the internet actually breaks. en-us https://statusdetector.com/blog/dns-propagation-explained https://statusdetector.com/blog/dns-propagation-explained Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The phrase 'DNS propagation' is misleading. There's no synchronous global update. What you're actually waiting for is a million independent caches to expire — and that timing depends on choices made by you, your registrar, and every resolver in between. StatusDetector DNS Explainer https://statusdetector.com/blog/is-it-down-for-everyone https://statusdetector.com/blog/is-it-down-for-everyone Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A clean three-way split for diagnosing whether a website is genuinely down or only broken for you. Probe, status page, network isolation — in that order. StatusDetector Troubleshooting Guide https://statusdetector.com/blog/reading-redirect-chains https://statusdetector.com/blog/reading-redirect-chains Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT When 'is the site down' turns out to be 'the site is fine, but the redirect chain is sending users somewhere unexpected,' the only useful diagnostic is the full hop-by-hop trail. Here's what each step tells you, and the patterns that crop up most often. StatusDetector HTTP Debugging https://statusdetector.com/blog/reading-http-status-codes https://statusdetector.com/blog/reading-http-status-codes Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The five-class shortcut for HTTP status codes (1xx-5xx), the seven specific codes worth knowing, and how to triage what each one means in practice. StatusDetector HTTP Guide