What is Uptime Monitoring?

Uptime monitoring is an automated service that pings your website every 1–5 minutes from multiple locations around the world. If your site does not respond, you receive an immediate alert by email, SMS, or Slack.

Without monitoring, you could be down for hours before a customer calls you.

Why Every Website Needs It

**Revenue protection** — E-commerce stores lose money every minute they are down
**Reputation** — Customers who hit a broken site rarely come back
**SLA verification** — Hold your hosting provider accountable to their uptime guarantee
**Quick diagnosis** — Know whether it is a server issue, DNS failure, or SSL problem

Free Uptime Monitoring Tools

### 1. UptimeRobot (Recommended)

**Free plan**: 50 monitors, 5-minute intervals
**Alerts**: Email, SMS, Slack, Telegram, webhooks
**Features**: Status page builder, public dashboards

**Setup:**

1. Create a free account at [uptimerobot.com](https://uptimerobot.com)

2. Click **Add New Monitor**

3. Choose **HTTP(s)** type

4. Enter your website URL

5. Set check interval to 5 minutes

6. Add your email under **Alert Contacts**

7. Click **Create Monitor**

### 2. Freshping

**Free plan**: 50 checks, 1-minute intervals
Includes public status pages

### 3. Better Uptime

**Free plan**: 10 monitors, 3-minute checks
Excellent incident management features

Setting Up SMS Alerts (India)

For Indian businesses, UptimeRobot supports SMS alerts via Twilio integration. Alternatively, use their Telegram bot for free instant alerts on your phone.

What to Monitor

Do not just monitor your homepage. Also check:

Key landing pages (`/contact`, `/pricing`)
Your checkout page or payment portal
Your API endpoints if you run a web app
Your admin login page

Interpreting Downtime Reports

**99.9% uptime** = 8.7 hours of downtime per year
**99.5% uptime** = 43.8 hours of downtime per year
**99.0% uptime** = 87.6 hours of downtime per year

webzworld hosting plans guarantee 99.9% uptime. If you experience downtime that breaches this SLA, contact our support team with your monitoring logs for a service credit.