Uptime Monitoring for WordPress – My Website is Online
Two of the things that take a site offline are dates on a calendar. The day the SSL certificate expires. The day the domain registration lapses. Both are easy to miss, and both take the whole site down when they pass. The third one is quieter. WordPress cron stops running and nothing tells you. Back
About this tool.
Two of the things that take a site offline are dates on a calendar. The day the SSL certificate expires. The day the domain registration lapses. Both are easy to miss, and both take the whole site down when they pass.
The third one is quieter. WordPress cron stops running and nothing tells you. Backups stop, scheduled posts sit there, security scans never fire, and the admin screen looks exactly the same as always.
This plugin puts all three on your dashboard. Connect the site to My Website is Online, free for one site, and it also tells you when the site goes down.
What you see
- Days left on your SSL certificate, and who issued it. Read from outside, the way a visitor sees it.
- Days left before the domain has to be renewed.
- Whether scheduled tasks are running, waiting for a visitor, or not running at all.
- Once connected: whether the site is up, its response time, its uptime over 24 hours, 7 and 30 days, and its latest incidents.
Warnings appear at 14, 7 and 3 days before either date, on the dashboard and by email. The emails go to the site administration address and can be turned off on the plugin page.
No account needed for the dates
Install it, activate it, and the dashboard widget fills itself in. There is no sign up and nothing to configure for the certificate, the domain and cron.
Uptime monitoring, free for one site
A WordPress site cannot tell you that it is down, because when it is down there is nothing left to tell you. That takes a service watching from outside. Connect the site from the plugin page with your email and a password: if you already have a My Website is Online account, the site is added to it; if not, the account is created. The site is then checked every 5 minutes and you get an email when it goes down. New accounts start with 14 days of every paid feature, no card, then stay free for this site. https://mywebsiteisonline.com/
External services
This plugin relies on My Website is Online, a third party service, to read the two expiry dates it shows you. Your site cannot read them on its own. The certificate has to be inspected from outside, and the registration date comes from the domain registry.
What is sent: the site address, and the WordPress, PHP and plugin versions.
When it is sent: once when you activate the plugin, once when an administrator first opens the dashboard or the plugin page, and once a day after that, or every 15 minutes once the site is connected. Also when you press the check button.
