Availability
Is your website answering from the public internet right now? This is the core question, checked over real HTTP — the same way a browser asks it.
Website monitoring that speaks plain English
PingStuff checks your website continuously and emails you the moment something breaks — then tells you what went wrong in words, not error codes. Email alerts are live today; SMS alerts are rolling out.
Check, watch, alert, explain, confirm
Monitoring is the free health check on repeat, with a promise attached: if the answer changes, you hear about it — start to finish.
Check
Every cycle starts with a full health check: DNS resolution, connection, SSL certificate, and the actual web response — run from outside your network, the way a visitor reaches you.
Watch
Monitoring repeats that check on a schedule, around the clock. Problems get noticed while you are asleep, in a meeting, or on holiday — not when a customer emails.
Alert
A single blip never pages you: PingStuff re-checks a failure before saying anything. When it is confident, you get a plain-English email right away. SMS alerts reach verified Canadian mobiles.
Explain
The alert leads with what is actually wrong — an expired certificate, a crashed application, a domain that stopped resolving — with the raw technical detail underneath, not instead.
Confirm
When your site recovers, you get a closing message with the total downtime, so you know the incident is over without refreshing anything.
Want the longer version, including an honest note on how we check? Read how PingStuff works.
What gets watched
“Up” is more than a green dot. Every monitored website is checked on four fronts, because each one fails differently.
Response time
How long your server takes to start responding, tracked check after check. Slowdowns usually show up in this number days before anything actually breaks.
SSL expiry
Certificates expire on a schedule and take websites down overnight. PingStuff counts down the days and reminds you before browsers start warning your visitors away.
DNS
Your domain has to resolve to a real address before anything else matters. Expired registrations, deleted records and botched migrations all get caught here.
The plain-English difference
Most monitors send you “HTTP 503 on check #4919” and leave the translation to you, at 2am. PingStuff leads with the human explanation. These are real report strings from the product, not marketing copy:
Your SSL certificate expires soon.
Your website’s security certificate expires in 12 days. Visitors will see security warnings if it lapses.
Technical detail: Certificate expires in 12 days.
Your web application is temporarily unavailable.
Your domain and server are reachable, but the web application returned a ‘service unavailable’ response. This is usually temporary — an overloaded app, a restart, or maintenance.
Technical detail: HTTP 503 Service Unavailable
This domain isn’t pointing anywhere.
Your domain name isn’t registered or isn’t pointing at any server right now, so browsers can’t find your website.
Technical detail: DNS lookup returned NXDOMAIN.
The raw status codes, DNS answers and certificate data are always one tap away — plain English first never means detail withheld. And when something does break, each incident prepares a ready-to-send note for your hosting provider — and on paid plans, a shareable report you can hand a client or teammate as evidence of what happened and when.
Priced per site — or flat for agencies
The instant checker is free forever, no signup. Monitoring is priced per website you watch — no base fee, no seat math. Managing client sites? The Agency plan is one flat price for up to 15 sites, with white-label reports you can put in front of clients.
Free
Freeno card required
Free instant health reports and email outage alerts for up to 3 sites.
Monitor
$17per site / month
1-minute checks with plain-English email alerts and SMS texts to Canadian mobiles — 3-region checks rolling out.
Agency
$49flat / month
Up to 15 client sites, flat — white-label shareable reports, 1-minute checks, plain-English incident evidence.
Every paid plan starts with a 30-day trial with full features. Nothing is charged automatically when it ends, and nothing is deleted if you stop.
Live now: the free instant checker, plus continuous monitoring with plain-English email alerts and SSL expiry reminders. SMS alerts and multi-region checks are rolling out — plan features marked “rolling out” on the pricing page activate as they ship.
Stop being the last to know
Put your website under watch in a couple of minutes — 30 days free, full features, no card.