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Recent Activity (7 days)

Response time has held steady, averaging 38ms.

No status changes in the last 7 days — The Register has been consistently up.

Uptime
100%
Excellent
Response
21ms
Last check
Checks
6,679
Over 148 days
Last Check
Aug 18, 2026, 7:41 PM
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About The Register

Category
News
Monitored from
EU (Helsinki, Frankfurt, Amsterdam)
Check interval
Every 5 minutes
Monitoring since
March 30, 2026 (148 days, 6,679 checks)

How we measure this: checks run from EU servers only, so a result here reflects what the EU sees, not a global view. A regional outage, CDN edge-cache issue, or bot/WAF protection that treats our monitoring probe differently than a real visitor can all cause this to disagree with The Register's own status page — that's a limitation of any third-party checker, not just this one.

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Is The Register down right now?

The Register is currently up and running. Our last check from EU servers showed a response time of 21ms with 100% uptime over the past 148 days.

What is The Register's uptime?

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