Know your site is down before your customers do.
Continuous uptime monitoring built for solo founders and small teams. Drop a URL below for an instant free check — or start a 14-day trial for full monitoring with AI anomaly explanations.
No signup. We never store your IP. Free checks are rate-limited to prevent abuse.
Self-funded, independent.
Pricing that stays predictable. No VC, no acquisition risk.
Built in Europe, GDPR-aware by default.
Monitoring runs from a European data center.
No tracking, no cookies for analytics.
Self-hosted simple analytics, our own.
Built for the way solo founders actually run their sites.
No DevOps team, no enterprise complexity. Add a URL, get a clear verdict, sleep at night.
One-tap free checks
Paste any URL on the homepage to get an instant up/down verdict, response time, SSL info, and DNS health — no account needed.
Honest 5-minute alerts
Email alerts the moment a check fails. We don't pretend to be sub-second — solo founders care about reliability, not theater.
AI anomaly context
Pro tier explains what changed and what it might mean — SSL expiring soon, DNS swap, response time spike — in plain English.
SSL + redirect tracking
Track certificate expiry, redirect chains, server header changes, and tech-stack drift over time.
When something goes wrong, you get an email. Otherwise, just a weekly digest.
An issue on a monitored domain — down, recovery, SSL expiring, anomaly — goes directly to your email within minutes. No issue? You hear from us once a week with a quiet summary (Pro tier). We don't do daily pings, "your site is still up" confirmations, or per-check noise — those would just train you to ignore us.
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Why uptime monitoring still matters in 2026
If you run a side project, a freelance client's site, an agency portfolio, or a small SaaS — you don't have a NOC team watching dashboards. You have a job, a life, and a small set of URLs that need to stay up. Uptime monitoring is the simplest piece of operational software you can buy: it watches your sites and tells you when something goes wrong, so you don't hear about it from a customer first.
web-down.com checks each URL every five minutes from a European data center. When a site stops responding (or starts returning errors, or slows down significantly), we send an email alert within minutes. On the Pro tier, we also detect more subtle changes — SSL certificates approaching expiry, DNS records changing unexpectedly, server headers shifting after a deploy — and explain what we saw in plain English using Claude AI. Once a week, we send a short executive summary so you can spot trends without staring at graphs.
We're not the cheapest, fastest, or most feature-complete monitoring tool on the market — by design. We're the one built specifically for the solo operator: clear UI, honest claims (no “global” theater from a single VPS), predictable pricing, and a roadmap accountable to users instead of investors.
Try a free check above on any site you care about — yours, a competitor's, a vendor you depend on. If you like what you see, sign up for a 14-day trial without a credit card.
Pricing for solo founders
14-day free trial, no credit card required. All prices in USD, excl. VAT — calculated at checkout.
excl. VAT — 5 monitors fixed
- 5 monitors
- 5-minute checks
- Email alerts
- Rule-based anomaly detection
- 30-day history
excl. VAT — slider 10 to 100 monitors
- 10–100 monitors (slider)
- 5-minute checks
- Email alerts
- AI anomaly explanations
- Weekly AI executive reports
- 30-day history + daily aggregates
Frequently asked questions
Everything we get asked before someone signs up. Honest answers — including the things competitors gloss over.
How does the free uptime check work?
Drop any URL on the homepage. We send a single HTTP request from a European data center with an 8-second timeout, then show you the verdict (UP / DOWN / DEGRADED), response time, HTTP status, SSL certificate info, DNS resolution, and tech-stack hints. No signup, no IP storage, results are cached for 60 seconds. Free checks are rate-limited per hashed IP-prefix to prevent abuse.How quickly do alerts arrive when something breaks?
We check every five minutes, so the worst case is roughly five minutes plus the time it takes to deliver an email — usually under a minute. We don't claim sub-second alerting, because we'd have to lie. Other tools advertise 30-second or instant intervals; in practice that means more noise, more false positives during their own infrastructure hiccups, and a higher price tag. Five minutes is the sweet spot for solo operators.Are checks really from a single location?
Yes. One European VPS, currently in Belgium. We say so on every relevant page because honesty matters more than the multi-region marketing theatre. For 95% of solo founders this is what you actually need: the question 'is my site up?' has the same answer from any vantage point most of the time. Multi-region monitoring matters when you're already running NOC-grade ops — and at that scale you've outgrown us anyway.What does the Pro tier give me that Starter doesn't?
Three things. (1) More monitors — 10 to 100 via a slider at $1.50 per monitor instead of Starter's fixed five. (2) AI anomaly explanations: when a check trips an unusual pattern (response-time spike, DNS change, SSL expiring, server header drift) we generate a plain-English explanation via Claude Haiku so you don't need to interpret the raw data. (3) Weekly AI executive summary: every Monday 09:00 in your local timezone, Claude Sonnet writes a 5-7 sentence operations digest covering uptime trends, incidents, and recommendations.What happens after the 14-day trial?
Monitors pause and we stop running checks, but your account, monitor list, and history stay intact for 30 days. Add a payment method during that window to reactivate without losing anything. Don't add payment within 30 days and we'll fully delete the account and its data — that's the GDPR floor and it's also the right default.Do you store my IP address or any personal data?
No IP address is logged anywhere. Free-tier rate limiting uses a salted hash of the IP-prefix that expires hourly, so even the rate-limit cache can't be reversed to identify visitors. The only personal data we hold is your account email (paid tier) and any URLs you choose to monitor. We use cookieless, self-hosted analytics of our own (simple analytics), opt-in via the GDPR cookie consent.Can I monitor staging URLs, intranet sites, or local development?
Public HTTP/HTTPS endpoints only. We block private IP ranges (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16, 169.254.0.0/16, ::1, fc00::/7), localhost, and any hostname that doesn't resolve to a public IP. This is both an abuse-prevention measure and a basic SSRF guard — without it, the free-check tool could be weaponized against internal infrastructure. If you need staging monitoring, expose it on a public hostname (Cloudflare Access works well as a gate) and monitor that.Why does web-down ask me to verify domain ownership before paid monitoring?
Because pointing a 5-minute-interval probe at someone else's site is — at best — surveillance, and at worst a reflective load-tool we'd be footing the bandwidth for. Free one-shot checks at the homepage don't require verification (single fetch, rate-limited, low blast radius). Paid continuous monitoring does. You pick one of three methods that fits your hosting setup: a DNS TXT record (best for anyone with DNS panel access), a file at /.well-known/ (for users who deploy code), or an HTML meta tag (for no-code site builders like Webflow, Framer, Wix). Verification takes about 2 minutes and is one-time per domain — every monitor under that domain is unlocked once it succeeds. We re-check weekly in the background; if the verification record is removed, monitors pause after a 28-day grace period (with a 21-day warning email). Same model Google Search Console, Cloudflare, AWS, Stripe, and Let's Encrypt all use. Full guide at /docs/domain-verification.Who runs web-down.com and what's the long-term plan?
Solo-operated by flndrn out of Belgium, paid for entirely from operating revenue. No VC, no acquisition exit plan, no surprise pricing changes when investor runway depletes. The roadmap is accountable to paying users instead of a board. This is a real, sustainable, single-operator project — see the About page for the longer version.