StatusCake uptime monitoring blocked?

MrMartian

I've been using StatusCake.com since a few years for reporting downtimes to me, without much problems. Only sometimes they report something as down, but there is no issue when I try myself; this has probably more to do with me using a free tier so they don't retest soon after a failure.

However, since 16+hours now all my Opalstack websites are reported as 403 and continue to be so; in reality absolutely no problem. The incident report states that server doesn't seem down, just rather actively refusing request:

<<The monitored URL returned HTTP 403. The server understood the request but denied access. This often points to WAF, CDN, bot protection, authentication, IP allowlisting, or permission rules. >>

However, I'm not using any CDN or auth, listing or permission rules. I've not changed any settings for firewall or robots.txt. Any obvious cause I'm overlooking? Or others with same experience?

Thanks!

peter

MrMartian Please email support@opalstack.com and include the Opalstack server you're using and the monitored URLs you think may be affected by a possible block. The support team will look into it for you as soon as possible. (Do not share any account-specific info on this public forum.)