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Uptime Monitoring

A website that is down is a closed shop, and most owners find out from an annoyed customer. We monitor your uptime around the clock so problems get caught and fixed fast, often before anyone notices.

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What it is

Know the instant your site goes down, before customers do.

Uptime monitoring is an automated watch on your website that checks it is online around the clock and alerts us the moment it goes down, so it can be fixed quickly.

In plain terms

It is a smoke detector for your website. Instead of finding out there is a fire when a customer smells smoke, we get the alert the instant something is wrong and put it out fast.

Catch it first

We know about downtime before your customers do.

Less downtime

Fast alerts mean fast fixes, so you lose fewer leads.

Peace of mind

Your site is being watched around the clock.

Why owners are always the last to know

Nobody visits their own website. You built it, it worked, and you got back to running the business — which means when it goes down, the people who notice are exactly the ones you cannot afford to lose: the homeowner with your card trying to see your work, the referral checking you out at 9 pm, Google's crawler finding errors and quietly adjusting your rankings. None of them will call to tell you. They just move on, and the downtime stays invisible until someone happens to mention it days later.

Downtime also never picks a good moment. Servers fail on holiday weekends, certificates lapse on Friday nights, and traffic spikes — the storm that should fill your roofing calendar — are precisely when overloaded hosting tips over. The worst-case timing is not bad luck; it is correlated with when your site matters most.

How monitoring works, and what it changes

The mechanics are simple: an automated check requests your site every few minutes from outside, around the clock. The moment a check fails, we are alerted — not with a vague 'site down,' but with enough detail to tell a hosting hiccup from an expired certificate from a broken deployment. Most incidents are diagnosed and resolved before the next customer ever tries to visit.

The change is in the arithmetic of a bad day. Unmonitored, a Saturday-morning outage runs about 48 hours: it lasts until someone notices, and nobody is looking. Monitored, the same failure is minutes of downtime and an explanation in your inbox after the fact. Same incident, three orders of magnitude less damage — that ratio is the entire product.

Sound familiar?

Signs this is for you

If any of these ring true, this is exactly what fixes it.

You have found out your site was down only when someone told you.

You have no idea if your site is up right now.

Downtime would cost you calls at the worst possible moment.

How it works

Simple, start to finish

01

Watch

We check your site is online around the clock.

02

Alert

The moment it goes down, we are notified instantly.

03

Respond

We jump on it to get you back up fast.

See the difference

Before and after

Before

Your site is down all Saturday and you only learn Monday, after losing a weekend of calls.

After

It blips offline at 2am, we get the alert and fix it, and it is back up before anyone calls.

What you get

What is included

Around-the-clock uptime checks

Fast alerts if your site goes down

Quick response to get it back up

Reliable hosting that stays up in the first place

One less thing for you to worry about

Why it matters

Why this is worth doing

Every minute your site is down is a lead you cannot capture, and it always seems to happen at the worst time. Monitoring turns hours of unnoticed downtime into a quick fix.

Part of our speed & hosting service

What it costs

Pricing, plainly

Uptime monitoring is included in every care plan — it comes with Basic Care at $50/month as part of hosting, not as a separate line. The response when something breaks is included too: monitoring that just tells you the site is down, without someone fixing it, would be half a service.

FAQ

Uptime Monitoring: common questions

An automated service that checks your website is online around the clock and alerts us the instant it goes down, so it can be fixed fast, often before any customer notices.

Let's talk

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