Website Monitoring Service UpDown Accepts Bitcoin
Various services around the world have started exploring the option of accepting Bitcoin payments for goods and services rendered. One positive trend to note is how there are so many different businesses where you can spend Bitcoin these days. Perhaps one of the more unique services is Updown.io, a platform to monitor your website’s uptime at low costs. Website owners can relate to how annoying it can be to monitor the uptime of a website at any given time. Not just when they are running their own website, but it’s especially the case when managing websites for dozens of customers. A....
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