Why Monitoring Your Website’s Uptime Matters (and How to Do It for Free)

If you run a website — whether it’s for your startup, personal blog, small business, or open source project — one thing’s certain: downtime sucks.

When your site goes down, people notice. Visitors can’t access your content, customers can’t make purchases, and your credibility takes a hit. Worse, if you’re not monitoring your uptime, you might not even know it’s down until someone complains (never a good look).

What does Uptime Monitoring Give You?

• Instant alerts when your site is down
• Response time and performance tracking
• Reliability reports over time
• Patterns and insights into recurring issues