Downtime alerts · 3 min read
Know About Outages Before Your Customers Do
Uptime monitoring catches hosting failures, expired certificates and bad deploys while they're still minutes old.
There are two ways to find out your website is down: an alert, or an email from your boss asking why the site is down. Uptime monitoring makes sure it's always the first one.
What takes sites offline
- Hosting or DNS outages.
- Expired SSL certificates triggering browser security warnings.
- Expired domains when renewals go to a former employee's inbox.
- A deploy, plugin update or CMS change that breaks the site.
- Third-party services the site depends on failing.
The uptime math
- 99.9% uptime still allows about 43 minutes of downtime a month.
- 99.5% uptime allows about 3.6 hours a month.
If downtime overlaps with a campaign launch, a media mention or your peak hours, those minutes cost far more than average.
What good monitoring gives you
- Round-the-clock checks with immediate alerts.
- A history of incidents for vendor conversations and reporting.
- Evidence to hold your host to its uptime promise.
Downtime alerts are on the way, with a log you'll be able to share with your host or leadership. Join the waitlist to be told when they launch.