Protect Your Digital Presence
For small businesses, your website is often your storefront, sales team, and customer service rolled into one. When it goes down, you're closed for business. Unlike large enterprises with 24/7 IT teams, small businesses need simple, effective monitoring that just works.
Why Small Businesses Need Monitoring
You're Not Always Online
Your website needs to work when you're sleeping, on vacation, or focused on running your business. Monitoring watches your site 24/7 so you don't have to.
Every Hour of Downtime Hurts
Small businesses can't afford to lose customers. If your restaurant's website is down during dinner rush, customers go elsewhere. If your service business is offline during business hours, leads contact competitors.
Hosting Provider Issues
Even "reliable" hosting providers have outages. Shared hosting, in particular, can be affected by other sites on the same server. Monitoring catches these issues immediately.
WordPress Updates Gone Wrong
Plugin or theme updates can break your site. Monitoring alerts you within minutes instead of days.
Simple Setup for Non-Technical Users
Enter Your Website URL
Just paste your website address. No technical knowledge needed. Setup takes under 2 minutes.
Choose How Often to Check
Select 1-minute, 5-minute, or 10-minute checks. More frequent = faster detection.
Get Instant Alerts
Receive email or SMS alerts within minutes of downtime. Fix issues fast.
✅ Small Business Success Story
A local bakery's website went down on Sunday morning—their busiest online ordering day. Monitoring alerted the owner within 1 minute. She called her web developer, who fixed the issue in 15 minutes. Total downtime: 16 minutes. Orders saved: $800+ in Sunday brunch orders.
Monitoring cost: $10/month. ROI: First prevented outage paid for 80 months.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. 30% of small business websites experience unplanned downtime each year. Without monitoring, outages last 4-6 hours on average before discovery. During those hours, you lose sales, customers find competitors, and Google penalizes your SEO. Monitoring alerts you within minutes, not hours.
Basic monitoring costs $10-30/month—less than one lost sale. Free plans often work for very small sites with hourly checks. Paid plans offer 1-5 minute checks, multiple locations, and SMS alerts. The ROI is immediate: one prevented outage pays for years of monitoring.
No. Basic setup takes 5 minutes: enter your website URL, add your email for alerts, done. No coding, no server access, no technical knowledge required. Most services provide step-by-step wizards designed for non-technical business owners.
Start with basics: homepage availability, SSL certificate expiration, and contact form functionality. Then add critical pages (services, booking, store) and scheduled checks before business hours. Don't over-complicate—monitor what directly generates revenue or customer inquiries.
Technically yes, but practically no. You can't check your site 24/7, you won't notice SSL expiration 30 days early, and manual checks miss the exact moment outages start. Monitoring services check every 1-5 minutes automatically and wake you at 3 AM when problems happen.
You receive instant alerts via email, SMS, or Slack within 60 seconds. The alert includes what failed, when it happened, and from which location. You can immediately contact your hosting provider with specific details instead of discovering downtime from frustrated customer calls.