Technical Foundations · 1.9
Server Uptime
How often your site is actually online when someone tries to visit it — as opposed to showing an error, or not loading at all.
Why this matters
The customer’s side
Someone trying to visit a site that's down doesn't think “I'll try again later” — they usually assume something's wrong with the business itself, and simply go to a competitor instead.
The search engine’s side
Frequent downtime can get pages removed from the index
Downtime loses visitors in the moment, and if it's frequent enough, Google can reduce how often it bothers checking your site at all — in severe cases, pages can be removed from the index entirely.
How to check yours
Method 1 — An instant, one-off check
confirms whether your site is down right now, in seconds, no signup needed.
- 1.Go to downforeveryoneorjustme.com and enter your website address.
- 2.It tells you immediately whether the site is up or down.
Method 2 — UptimeRobot, for ongoing monitoring
a one-off check only tells you about right now — this catches the outages that happen while nobody's looking.
- 1.Go to uptimerobot.com and sign up, free.
- 2.Add your website as a monitor.
- 3.Let it run for a few weeks.
How to fix what you find
Rare, brief downtime
not worth acting on.
Frequent downtime
your host isn't reliable enough. SiteGround, Kinsta, and WP Engine all publish real uptime guarantees worth switching to.
Keeping on top of it
This is usually only noticed once it's already cost you a week of visibility — set the monitoring up once, then just glance at the report monthly.
How Reyse handles this
Done With You
we help you set up monitoring and tell you when to consider switching hosts.
Done For You
we monitor this continuously and manage the hosting relationship for you.