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Add a monitor
Paste the URL. Pick how often it should be checked and, if you want, a word that has to appear on the page.
- Websites and APIs
- Keyword matching
- Custom status codes
Know before your
Customers Do
We check your site around the clock and email you the moment it stops answering — with the status code, the response time and how long it has been down.
What we watch
Four kinds of check, one dashboard
Most outages are not dramatic. A certificate lapses, a cron job stops running, a deploy returns the wrong page. These are the checks that catch them.
About us
Alerts you can act on
Website Alive exists to answer one question quickly and honestly: is it up? Every alert names what failed, when it started and what the response actually was, so the first minute is spent fixing rather than diagnosing.
A check has to fail twice in a row before anyone is emailed, so a single blip stays quiet. When it recovers, you get one message with the total downtime — and nothing else.
60s
Fastest check interval
24/7
Checks run whether or not you are looking
2 fails
Before anyone is emailed
90 days
Of uptime history on a status page
HOW TO GET STARTED
Watching your first site takes a minute
Paste a URL, confirm where the alerts should go, and leave it running.
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Confirm your alerts
Add the addresses that should hear about downtime. Each one confirms itself before anything is sent.
- Verified addresses only
- Route per monitor
- Recovery notices too
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Publish a status page
Turn on a public page for your customers to care about, with ninety days of history.
- Your own address
- Incident notes
- No internal URLs shown
WHY CHOOSE US
Quiet until it matters
A monitoring tool earns its place by being ignorable. Ours is built to stay silent until something is genuinely wrong.
No alert storms
Two failures to open an incident, one message an hour while it lasts, and a hard cap after that.
History that survives
Daily uptime is kept even after the detailed checks are pruned, so your status page keeps its record.
Careful by default
Monitors only reach the public internet, and a status page never shows the address you are actually checking.
Choose your plan
Find the plan that fits
Start with one site and grow into an estate. Cancel any time.
Bronze
One site, watched properly
$9.99 / month
- 5 monitors, checked every 5 minutes
- Email alerts to 2 addresses
- Keyword and status-code checks
- 7 days of response-time history
Silver
For a handful of services
$19.99 / month
- 15 monitors, checked every 3 minutes
- Certificate and domain expiry warnings
- A public status page
- 30 days of history
Gold
One-minute checks and heartbeats
$29.99 / month
- 40 monitors, checked every minute
- Heartbeat monitoring for cron jobs
- Email alerts to 10 addresses
- 90 days of history
Frequently asked questions
Your questions, answered
As fast as your plan checks, plus one confirming check. On a one-minute plan that is about two minutes from the first failure to the email.
From a single location. That is worth knowing: a failure means this server could not reach your site, which is almost always the same thing as your visitors not reaching it, but not quite.
The reverse of a website check. We give you a URL, your scheduled job calls it when it finishes, and if the call does not arrive inside the window you set we raise an incident.
No. One message when it goes down, one an hour after that while it stays down, and a strict cap — then one message when it recovers.
You can cancel any time from your account page. Refund requests within 30 days of a charge are honoured in full — see our refund policy.
Find out from us, not from a customer
Add your first monitor today and let Website Alive watch it while you get on with something else.
