As a MyListing website owner and someone who manages MyListing websites for clients, I know how finicky things can be, whether there is an issue with WordPress or with plugins (WooCommerce, Elementor, etc.) or a random issue with the MyListing theme itself.
Your website’s underlying infrastructure is no different, as it relies on software. Still, you also have to factor in that hardware sometimes fails and that humans managing that hardware/software can make mistakes.
Many website owners don’t actively monitor their uptime, and by the time they realize their site is down, they have lost potential sales and may have also hurt their brand.
In this guide, I’ll cover the various solutions I’ve used and some that I continue to use to monitor website uptime.
Kinsta
Kinsta monitors the uptime of all sites on its platform, checking your site every 2 minutes. Their engineers quickly restore service if their monitoring detects that a site isn’t loading.
When notifications are enabled in MyKinsta (User Settings > Notifications), if one of the errors below is detected on your WordPress site, they will send you an email to let you know your site needs critical attention:
- Website Downtime
- Website Errors
- DNS Errors
- SSL Errors
- Domain Expiration
WP Umbrella
If you manage multiple websites, I recommend WP Umbrella. It gives you everything you need to easily manage and monitor multiple WordPress sites from a single location.
- Single Dashboard To Manage All Sites
- Performance & Uptime Monitoring
- PHP Error Monitoring
- Health Checks & Security Monitoring
Uptime Robot
Uptime Robot offers a generous, FREE pricing tier that typically gives you all you ever need, and setting up their online service is super simple. You can upgrade to their paid (Pro) plan at some point if you have a critical website and need to know the minute it goes offline rather than the 5-minute checks included in the FREE plan.
- Sign up. (Note: Sign up with an email address where you are comfortable receiving alerts.)
- Click the ‘Add New Monitor’ button.
- Monitor Type > HTTPS.
- Friendly Name > Enter the name of your website.
- URL > Enter your domain name.
- On the right-hand side, check the box to confirm the email address receiving the alerts.
- Click the ‘Create Monitor’ button.
MyListing Website Care
While it’s possible to monitor uptime and act on any issues, some MyListing website owners don’t want to be bothered with this sort of thing. As part of MyListing Website Care, I get notified and work on behalf of clients to get their sites back online as soon as possible.