Short answer
Uptime monitoring checks from outside whether your website responds, so you learn about an outage before customers tell you. In AI Marketing Master, uptime checks are an option the platform switches on; once active, your site's status appears beside your SEO and speed results in plain words. The app tells you there is a problem; the fix usually lies with your host, domain or website software.
Why small websites go down
- Shared hosting limits: a busy day or a bad plugin uses up your account's resources and the host pauses it.
- An update to WordPress, a theme or a plugin that breaks the site with a fatal error.
- The domain name or hosting plan was not renewed in time.
- DNS changes made while moving email or switching providers.
- The host itself has an outage or is doing maintenance.
- Malware or a hacked account that the host suspends.
You rarely notice it yourself
Your browser may show a saved copy of your site, and you do not visit your own home page every hour. Meanwhile a customer searching at night sees an error, and an ad keeps sending paid clicks to a page that does not load. An outside check sees what a stranger sees, not what your cached browser shows.
How uptime checks work in AI Marketing Master
- The platform turns on uptime and SSL checks for your account. Until then the item reads Not configured, in grey, so you never mistake it for a pass.
- Once on, the app requests your website from outside, like a visitor would, and records whether it answered properly.
- A site that answers shows green as Healthy. A site that does not shows red as Failed.
- The result sits on the same screen as your audit and Core Web Vitals, so website health is in one place.
- The Website Health specialist agent can summarise what happened and prepare a short note on what to check next.
First steps when your site is down
- Open the site on your phone using mobile data, not office Wi-Fi, to confirm it is not just your network.
- Check your hosting panel for a suspension notice or a resource limit warning.
- Check your email for domain or hosting renewal reminders.
- If you updated a plugin or theme just before, ask your developer or host to roll it back.
- Contact your host's support with the time you first saw the problem.
What uptime monitoring is not
It is not server monitoring. It does not watch your server's memory, disk, database or error logs. It also does not keep your site online or move it to a better host. Think of it as a smoke alarm: it tells you early, and you still need someone to put out the fire.
Who benefits most
Businesses whose website brings in enquiries, bookings or online orders, and businesses running ads that send paid visits to the site. Agencies benefit too, because they can see every client's site status from one account instead of hearing about outages from the client.
What it does not do
- Uptime checks work only when the platform has switched the option on.
- Checks look at your site from the outside; server resources and logs are not monitored.
- The app reports outages but cannot fix or restart your website.
Questions people ask
Is uptime monitoring part of every plan?
Uptime checks are an option the platform switches on. See the pricing page or contact us to check whether it is active for your account.
How often is my site checked?
Checks run on a regular schedule set by the platform. It is not a second-by-second service, so a very short blip between two checks may not be seen.
Will the app restart my website?
No. It cannot reach your server. It tells you the site is not responding so you or your host can fix it.
My host promises high uptime. Do I still need this?
A host's promise is about their servers. Your site can still go down because of a plugin, an expired domain or your account's limits, which the host's promise does not cover.
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