Why Monitoring Your Website’s Uptime Matters (and How to Do It for Free)

If you run a website — whether it’s for your startup, personal blog, small business, or open source project — one thing’s certain: downtime sucks.

When your site goes down, people notice. Visitors can’t access your content, customers can’t make purchases, and your credibility takes a hit. Worse, if you’re not monitoring your uptime, you might not even know it’s down until someone complains (never a good look).

What does Uptime Monitoring Give You?

• Instant alerts when your site is down
• Response time and performance tracking
• Reliability reports over time
• Patterns and insights into recurring issues

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Essentials for hobby projects and OSS — launch a public status page in minutes.

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• 1 Status Page
• 2 Monitors (120 check interval)
• Public Status Page
• Free URL (several subdomains)
• Embeds & Widgets
• 1 location(s) for checks

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Free for open-source projects — Get up to Community plan limits at no cost. Perfect for OSS maintainers who need reliable status monitoring.

3 Status Pages

10 Monitors per page

60 check interval

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