I had been wondering for some days why StatusCake has been saying some of the web sites I look after (as a volunteer) are down, when I know they are not.  I tried all sorts to work out what the problem was.  Their systems could not tell me:

I eventually realised what they have in common:

Their location: Israel.

I was then able to work out what had happened.  Someone, somewhere, between my hosting companies and Tel Aviv, had decided to block internet traffic from Israel.

That prompted me to contact StatusCake:

Somewhere between my hosting companies and your servers, someone has decided to block traffic from Israel.

 

That got me wondering… why I am dealing with a company with servers in Israel given what is going on right now? I have stopped buying any Israeli products or services this past couple of years and will continue to do so as long as the current massacre continues. Sadly, that appears to include yourselves.

 

I am going to delete my account now.

 

Goodbye.

There’s plenty of other companies that provide uptime monitoring that don’t do business in or with countries at war with their own population.  I’ll stick with them.