Updated 25 October 2026 · By the Upcertain team
What to watch
- The home page: is the site up at all?
- The page that makes money: a booking form, a contact form, an online shop. A keyword check makes sure the form or shop actually appears.
- The security certificate: an expired one shows visitors a warning page. Upcertain warns you weeks ahead.
Who should hear
Alerts can go to you by email and to whoever looks after your website, such as a freelancer or an agency. Someone who only needs to know can be a notify-only contact without a login.
What to do when an alert arrives
- Open the alert: it says what failed and since when.
- Forward it to whoever manages your website or hosting, with the time it started.
- Check your hosting provider's status page, in case the problem is theirs.
- You get a second message when the site is back, with how long it was down.
Do I need this if my host promises uptime?
A hosting promise usually means a partial refund after an outage, not a warning while it happens. It also does not cover your site's own problems, such as a broken plugin or a booking form that stopped working. Monitoring watches the site itself.
A simple monthly check-up
- Look at the month's uptime and any incidents in the app or the monthly report email.
- Check that the alert contacts are still the right people.
- After any website change, make sure the keyword checks still match the pages.
Ten minutes a month keeps monitoring useful. An alert that goes to someone who left the business is the same as no alert.
Getting started
Upcertain is in early access: billing is not enabled and accounts start on the Basic plan, which covers 10 monitors checked every minute and one status page. Guided setup turns your website's address into the right checks in one step. See how to monitor website uptime.