Small business website monitoring that warns you first.

Uptimia loads your site from 171+ checkpoints and messages you the moment it stops answering. The free plan watches one site every 5 minutes — no card, nothing installed.

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Free plan — one site, every 5 min Nothing to install Alerts by email, Slack & SMS
Websites monitored
100,000+
Checks per day
50M+
Checkpoints
171+
Countries covered
70+

What small business owners assume

Every one of these is reasonable. Every one of them ends with a customer finding a dead page before you do.

Belief 01

"Someone's already watching — my web guy, or the host."

Your developer built the site; they are not staring at it. Your host watches their own racks, not whether your homepage returns a page. Unless checking is written down as someone's job, it belongs to nobody.

Belief 02

"If it went down, a customer would tell me."

Rarely. A stranger who hits a dead page reads it as "closed" and clicks the next result instead. The one email that does arrive comes hours later, from a regular who already knows you.

Belief 03

"My SSL certificate renews automatically."

Until the card on file expires, or the renewal job stops running. Auto-renew only has to fail once, and the next customer meets a full-page browser security warning instead of your shop. Your own browser has the old certificate cached.

Belief 04

"Monitoring is for big companies with IT teams."

It was, when it meant a server in a cupboard. Loading a page every few minutes and comparing the answer is a machine's errand now. On Uptimia the version that watches one site costs nothing.

1,439min/day
unwatched · if you check once a day

"I check the site every morning" is the belief underneath all four. A daily look covers one minute of a 1,440-minute day; for the other 1,439 — 99.9% of it — nobody is watching. Breakage prefers exactly those minutes: the evening, the weekend, the Saturday rush.

An outage that starts at 9 p.m. runs until your morning coffee. That is twelve hours of customers meeting a dead page, and you are the last to know.

So what does a Saturday-morning outage look like when all 1,440 minutes are covered?↓ minute by minute

The Saturday the site stopped

08:42 on a Saturday, caldmont.com stopped answering. The counter was three deep and the online orders had quietly stopped arriving.

08:42:03 caldmont.com stops answering3 checkpoints in different regions have to agree before anything fires orders: at risk
08:42 The alert finds you at the counterA text and a Slack message reach the phone in your apron pocket orders: at risk
08:55 You forward the text to your hostBack up at 08:55 — confirmed by the same checks that caught it orders: at risk
09:00 Nobody phoned to askYour status page said "we're on it" for all 13 minutes orders: came through
13 mindown → back up
You knew first.09:00
No "is your site broken?" message, no dead page through the Saturday rush. The first person to find out was the only one who could do anything about it.
found out by text, not by a customerback in 13 minstatus page covered younothing installed · no IT team
Without a monitor, the same fault at 9 p.m. runs until you open the laptop on Sunday. Twelve hours of dead page, and no record of when it started. 12 h dark

That is the outage handled. "Down" is one of six ways a small site loses customers; the other five never take the page offline at all.↓ the other five

Small business website monitoring: six checks

Uptime, SSL, domain renewal, malware, page speed and checkout, from one dashboard with nothing installed on your site.

Uptime checksEvery 5 min free · every 30 s on Professional
Page speedFull page load, plus LCP, TTFB and CLS
Virus & malwareScanned daily against Google Web Risk
SSL certificateWarning window you set, 1 to 90 days
6 ways watched one dashboard · nothing installed
Checkout & formsWalked step by step in real Chrome
Domain expiryWHOIS re-read as often as once a day
Every check runs from 171+ checkpoints in 70+ countries, and 3 of them in different regions must agree before your phone buzzes. One flaky route never becomes a false "site down" text. no false alarms
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Built for the owner, not IT

No IT team required

Setup is pasting your web address

You do it yourself, because that is the whole job. Uptimia loads your site from the outside, the way a customer's browser does — no plugin, no server login, nothing that a theme update can knock over. WordPress, Shopify or a hand-built site makes no difference to it.

  • Nothing installed — no plugin, no FTP, no server access
  • Live in minutes — paste the address, tick the checks, done
  • Update-proof — a CMS upgrade cannot break the monitoring
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Paste your web addresshttps://caldmont.com — that is the whole setup
Tick your checksUptime · SSL · Domain · Malware — one tick each
Watched within minutesany site
The checks run on Uptimia's network and request your pages like any other visitor. Nothing is uploaded, nothing logs in, and your host sees ordinary traffic.
no pluginno server logina CMS update cannot break it
The old way: install a plugin, log into the server, remember to update it. One more thing to break every time the site changes. not needed
Alerts that reach you

Alerts reach the phone in your pocket

At the counter, on a delivery round, at your kid's game — never at a dashboard. So the alert goes out as an email, a Slack message and a text instead. Before any of them fires, 3 checkpoints in different regions have to agree the site is really down, which is the difference between a real outage and one probe's bad route.

  • Email, Slack, Telegram, Discord — included on every plan, free one too
  • 3 regions must agree — one flaky route never texts you at 2 a.m.
  • 50 texts a month — SMS credits start on the $9 Basic plan
Check if your site is down right now →
caldmont.com — DOWNagreed by 3 regions before sending 08:42
Text — the phone in your pocket"caldmont.com is DOWN" 08:42
Slack — #alertsthe recovery notice posts here too 08:42
Emailowner@caldmont.com — delivered 08:42
3 regions must agree before your phone buzzes — you set that bar yourself, from 1 to 3. Email and Slack are on every plan; text credits start on Basic. no false alarms
The things you forget

The renewal dates you forget

If you had to stop and think, that is the problem. The outages that sting most are the self-inflicted ones: a certificate that lapsed, a domain nobody renewed. Uptimia reads both on a schedule you set — the warning window is yours, anywhere from 1 to 90 days ahead — and scans the site against Google's Web Risk list, so a malware flag reaches you before it reaches your search results.

  • SSL expiry — you pick the warning window, 1 to 90 days ahead
  • Domain renewal — WHOIS re-read as often as once a day, urgent inside the final 3 days
  • Malware scans — a daily pass against Google's Web Risk list
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SSL certificatechain valid · warns on the window you set 48 days left
Domain registrationWHOIS on your schedule · urgent inside the final 3 days 21 days left
Malware scanGoogle Web Risk · daily · nothing flagged clean
Warned on your schedule1–90 days
You choose how far ahead the first warning lands — 1 to 90 days on both. Inside the final 3 days a domain alert promotes itself to critical without being asked.
1–90 day windowWHOIS up to once a daydaily Web Risk scan
The reminders a bigger company keeps a person for — read from the registry and the certificate itself, not a calendar entry. on autopilot
Look like you're on it

What customers see while you fix it

A page that says you already know, instead of a browser error that reads as "gone out of business". The status page is on the free plan, carries your logo and your own CSS, and drops the "Powered by Uptimia" line with one toggle. It keeps 90 days of history, so a regular who checks can see the outage was the exception.

  • On the free plan — one public status page, no card
  • Your logo, your CSS — and the "Powered by Uptimia" line switched off
  • 90 days of history — the ribbon shows how rare this is
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Websitecaldmont.com 99.97%
Online orderingorder.caldmont.com operational
status.caldmont.com
Everything's up and running.
updated 30 s ago · your logo, badge off
90 days agotoday
Included on the free plan, and the "Powered by Uptimia" line comes off with a toggle. Silence reads worse than the outage; this page reads as "we're on it". badge off · free

Your website going down should page you.Not a customer.

Every monitor type and 500 uptime checks for 30 days — no card.

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From web address to first alert

No install, no server login, no specialist — and nothing to undo if you change your mind.

Step 12 min

Add your website

Paste your web address and tick what to watch — uptime, SSL, domain, malware. Nothing is installed anywhere.

Your website
caldmont.com
live in under a minute · no server access
Step 22 min

Choose how you hear about it

Switch on email, Slack and text so the alert reaches the place you already look.

Alert me by
EmailSMSSlack
3 regions must agree before you're alerted
Step 3optional

Turn on your status page

One toggle and customers get a page showing your site's health, with your logo on it.

Public status page
status.caldmont.com · live
your logo · "Powered by Uptimia" switched off

What else is watching

Free to start, paid when you grow

The free plan watches one site every 5 minutes and includes a status page. Basic is $9 a month billed yearly for 10 uptime checks at 1-minute intervals; Professional takes them to 30 seconds.

Free 1 site · 5 min → $9 10 checks · 1 min → Pro 100 checks · 30 s

Page speed & vitals

A slow page loses sales without ever going down. LCP, FCP, TTFB and CLS charted over time, each with a budget you set.

LCP 1.8s · budget 2.5s

Confirmed, not guessed

171+ checkpoints in 70+ countries. Three of them, in different regions, have to agree before an alert leaves.

3 regions agree · then you're texted

Maintenance windows

Rebuilding the site on Sunday morning? Schedule the window and the checks pause, so the work never shows up as an incident.

Sun 07:00–08:00 · alerts muted

Recovery notices

The same channels tell you when it is back, with how long it was gone — so nobody keeps refreshing to find out.

✓ recovered · 08:55 · 13 min

Six monitor types, one list

Uptime, SSL, domain, malware, speed and checkout in a single view, each with its own history behind it.

UptimeEVERY MINUTE SSL certificateVALID · 48 D DomainRENEWS 21 D

Small business website monitoring, defined

Small business website monitoring is an outside service that loads your website around the clock — checking that it answers, that the SSL certificate is valid, that the domain is not about to lapse and that no malware has been flagged — and messages you the moment one of those fails. Nothing is installed on your site. Uptimia's free plan covers one website every 5 minutes, with a public status page included.

Without monitoring

The customer finds out first

Site stops answering
08:42 · nobody knows
hours later
A customer messages
"is your site broken?"

Every minute you do not know about is a sale that went to the next search result.

With Uptimia

You find out first

Site stops answering
08:42 · 3 regions agree
within the minute
SMS + Slack to you
fixed 08:55 · 13 min down

You catch it, forward it, and the status page covers you while it is fixed.

Why minutes matter

What "almost always up" really costs

"99-point-something" sounds perfect until it is converted into minutes. For a shop with one website, those minutes are orders that were never placed.

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UptimeDowntime / monthDowntime / year
99%7h 12m3.65 days
99.9%43m 12s8.76 hours
99.95%21m 36s4.38 hours
99.99%4m 19s52m 34s

Small business monitoring FAQ

01What is website monitoring for small business?+
An outside service that loads your website around the clock — checking uptime, SSL validity, domain expiry and malware flags — and alerts you the moment one of them fails. Nothing is installed on your site. Uptimia adds a public status page, page-speed and Core Web Vitals tracking, and checkout or contact-form runs in a real Chrome browser.
02Is there really a free plan?+
Yes: one website, checked as often as every 5 minutes, plus one public status page, free forever and with no card. SSL, domain, malware, page-speed and checkout monitoring start on the paid plans, and the 30-day trial opens all of them — 500 uptime checks and 50 of each other type — again without a card.
03Do I need technical skills or an IT team to use it?+
No. The setup is three fields: your web address, what to watch, and where to send the alert. Nothing asks for a server login, an FTP password or a DNS change. Owners of two-person businesses run it in their own reviews, and the free plan lets you find out before paying anything.
04Do I have to install a plugin or software on my website?+
No. Uptimia checks your site from the outside, the way a visitor's browser loads it — no plugin to install or keep updated, nothing that breaks when your CMS updates. It works with any site, WordPress and Shopify included. (One optional exception: watching your server's health uses a small installed agent — the website checks never do.)
05How will I know when my site goes down?+
By whichever channel you already look at: email, Slack, Telegram, Discord, Microsoft Teams or a text message. Email and the chat integrations are on every plan including the free one; SMS credits start at 50 a month on the $9 Basic plan. Before any of them fires, 3 checkpoints in different regions must agree the site is down — you can lower that bar to 1 if you would rather be paged sooner. Recovery is announced on the same channels.
06Will it warn me before my SSL certificate or domain expires?+
Yes, and you choose how far ahead. The warning window is a slider on both monitors, anywhere from 1 to 90 days before the date, and it starts at 7. Your domain's WHOIS record can be re-read as often as once a day, and inside the final 3 days the alert promotes itself to critical on its own. A full-page browser security warning on your own shop should never be how you find out.
07Can my customers see a status page during an outage?+
Yes. One public status page is included on the free plan. It answers the "is it just me?" question with a live per-monitor status and a 90-day history ribbon, carries your logo, and the "Powered by Uptimia" line comes off with a toggle at no cost. You can point your own subdomain at it, and password-protected or private pages are a paid-plan feature.
08Can I put my own branding on it?+
On the parts your customers see, yes. The status page takes your logo, your own custom CSS and a light or dark default, with the "Powered by Uptimia" line switched off at no cost. Branded email reports and alert emails — your logo and full colour palette — are a Professional-plan feature. The dashboard you log into is not white-labeled; it is the tool you work in, and customers never see it.
09Can I give an employee or my bookkeeper access?+
Yes. Every invited person gets a role — admin, editor, viewer, or a billing seat that only ever sees invoices and never your monitors. Editors and viewers can also be scoped to specific monitor groups, so a part-time helper sees the shop site and nothing else. Billing seats do not count against your allowance; the free and Basic plans include one other user, Professional ten.
10How many sites can I monitor as I grow?+
The free plan watches one. Basic covers 10 uptime checks, Professional 100 and Enterprise 1,000, with the SSL, domain, malware, speed and checkout allowances rising alongside them. The 30-day trial hands you 500 uptime checks, so you can load your real list before deciding.

Watched before your customers notice

One website, checked every 5 minutes, free forever and without a card. Paste your web address and get back to running the business.

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