For small businesses
Know when your business website goes down.
UptimeWire checks your website on a schedule and sends you an email or a Telegram message when it stops answering. You hear about it from us, not from a customer.
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bakery.example is down
Monitoring confirmed that the website is not answering. Reason: HTTP 503. Started 09:14.
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bakery.example is back up
The website answers again. It was down for 9 minutes.
An illustration. The wording in your own alerts may differ.
Why it matters
A website can fail without anyone telling you.
Most owners do not look at their website all day. These problems often go unseen until a customer runs into them.
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The website stops answering
A hosting problem or a broken update, and visitors see an error instead of your page. Without monitoring, the first sign is often a phone call.
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The certificate expires
When an SSL certificate runs out, browsers show visitors a full-page security warning, even though your server is running.
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The domain lapses
A missed renewal can take the whole address away. Domain checks help you see the date coming. Some registries publish no date; then it shows as unknown.
How it works
Set it up in three steps.
You do not need monitoring experience or a technical team.
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Step 1
Add your address
Enter the address your customers use, for example www.bakery.example. All four checks start for it.
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Step 2
Choose who is told
Alerts go to your email and, if you like, to Telegram. Both are included on every plan.
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Step 3
Carry on with your day
A failed check is repeated before it counts, so one brief blip does not raise an alarm. When a problem is confirmed you are told, and again when it ends.
Four checks
What each check tells you, in plain words.
Every website you add gets all four, on every plan.
- Is the website answering?
- UptimeWire opens your address the way a visitor would. An answer from 200 to 399 counts as working. Anything else counts as a failure.
- Is the security certificate valid?
- You choose how early to be warned, from 1 to 60 days before it expires. The certificate is checked about every six hours.
- When does the domain expire?
- You see the date and get a warning before it. If the registry does not publish a date, UptimeWire says it is unknown rather than guessing.
- Does the name still resolve?
- DNS is what turns your address into a server. This check confirms it still resolves, about once an hour.
Plans
Start free. Add more when you need it.
Many small sites need one address. If that is you, the Free plan may be all you ever need.
Free
- 1 website, with all four checks
- Checks every 5 minutes
- Alerts by email and Telegram
- No public status page
When Starter makes sense
- You have more than one address. www.bakery.example and a separate booking page count as two websites.
- Room for 10 websites, checked every 3 minutes
- A public status page, and webhooks or Discord for alerts
Good to know
What UptimeWire does not do.
It is an early warning, not a repair service.
- It tells you that a problem exists. It does not fix it or explain what caused it.
- It checks that your address answers. It does not test a contact form, a booking, or a payment, so a page can answer while a form behind it is broken.
- It is not instant. Checks run on a schedule and a failure is repeated before it is confirmed, so an alert follows shortly after the problem begins, not at the same second.
- One website means one exact address. www.bakery.example and bakery.example are counted separately.
Frequently asked questions
Before you start.
Do I need technical knowledge?
No. You enter your website address and choose where alerts go. The dashboard shows whether the website is working, when the certificate and domain expire, and what happened during any incident.
Can I start with just one website?
Yes. The Free plan covers one exact address with all four checks and no credit card. You can move to a larger plan later.
What happens when something goes wrong?
When a failed check is confirmed, you get an email, and a Telegram message if you set it up. You get another message when the website recovers. Your history shows when the problem began and how long it lasted.
Do I have to pay?
Not to start. Free is a real plan, not a trial. Paid plans add more websites, shorter check intervals, status pages, and more ways to be alerted.
What if my website is up but my contact form is broken?
UptimeWire would not notice that on its own. It confirms that a page answers. It can also look for a piece of text on that page, but it does not fill in or submit forms.
Your website works for your business. Keep an eye on it.
Start with one website, free, with all four checks included.