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Website Uptime Monitoring: Complete Guide for 2026

Published 2026-03-20 · 5 min read

Why Monitor Website Uptime?

Most site owners learn about downtime from angry customers. That's backwards. Every hour of downtime = lost revenue. You can't fix what you don't know is broken.

What Good Monitoring Looks Like

Check Frequency - Minimum every 5 minutes, best every 30 seconds.

Alert Speed - Under 5 minutes from outage to notification.

Check Locations - Test from multiple geographic regions.

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