# Phare blog

Inside stories about a human founder’s journey building uptime monitoring at scale.

## [What Paddle doesn't tell you about implementing metered billing](/content/blog/what-paddle-doesnt-tell-you-about-implementing-metered-billing/index.html)

How Phare implements calendar-month metered billing on Paddle using zero-value subscriptions, one-time charges, and a homemade invoice grace period.

## [Phare joins Bunny.net Hopstart](/content/blog/phare-joins-bunny-net-hopstart/index.html)

Phare joins Bunny.net’s Hopstart program and places 1st in the first cohort. Learn how Bunny.net helps power fast status pages, edge uptime monitoring, TLS management, and DDoS protection for Phare.

## [The Beam #2](/content/blog/the-beam-2/index.html)

Discover Phare's latest updates in The Beam #2: Incident AI, merging, notification threads, certificate monitoring and much more...

## [Recreating Laravel Cloud’s range input with native HTML](/content/blog/recreating-laravel-clouds-range-input-with-native-html/index.html)

Making a visually appealing range input based on Laravel Cloud's design, native HTML and only a few lines of JavaScript.

## [What to look for in an uptime monitoring tool](/content/blog/what-to-look-for-in-an-uptime-monitoring-tool/index.html)

After running an uptime monitoring tool for a few years, here’s my no-nonsense guide to picking a service that won’t let you down, with the features you’ll wish you had when things break.

## [The Beam #1](/content/blog/the-beam-1/index.html)

Discover Phare's latest updates in The Beam #1: new pricing, expanded monitoring regions, and a growing Discord community.

## [The 3-Year Journey to an Actually Good Monitoring Stack](/content/blog/the-3-year-journey-to-an-actually-good-monitoring-stack/index.html)

Phare.io’s uptime monitoring has been rebuilt many times, from AWS Lambda to cloud workers, and now Docker on the edge. Each version came with hard lessons, last-minute rewrites, and unexpected scaling challenges. Here’s the full story of what worked, what broke, and what finally feels solid.

## [Best practices to configure an uptime monitoring service](/content/blog/best-practices-to-configure-an-uptime-monitoring-service/index.html)

Discover essential tips for setting up reliable uptime monitoring, ensuring accurate alerts and minimizing false positives.

## [How we run Ghost on Docker with subdirectory routing](/content/blog/how-we-run-ghost-on-docker-with-subdirectory-routing/index.html)

Learn how to seamlessly integrate a Ghost blog running on Docker with subdirectory routing for SEO.

## [Downsampling time series data](/content/blog/downsampling-time-series-data/index.html)

Learn how Phare uses downsampling to show uptime monitoring data while providing the right balance between user experience and performance.