The monitoring tool a hosting operator built for himself
UptimeVitals exists because of a pattern met across years of running hosting servers: the website was up, the server was healthy — and the business was silently unreachable.
An SPF record quietly broke when a new invoicing tool was added. A certificate lapsed over a holiday weekend. A registrar renewal email went to a dead mailbox. Every one of these was a five-minute fix that took weeks to notice — found, usually, by a customer.
Enterprise monitoring exists, and so do single-purpose tools — one for uptime, one for DMARC, a third for blacklists, each with its own bill and its own dashboard written for engineers. Small sites got the worst of both worlds: too small for the enterprise stack, too busy to babysit four tools.
So we built the missing middle: the checks a small site actually needs, one score, alerts written for owners instead of sysadmins, and a price that survives the "is this worth it?" test — five dollars, because the first caught incident pays for a year of it.
Two projects, one idea
UptimeVitals is operated from the same infrastructure culture as its sister project MXDoctor, where the free checking tools live. MXDoctor answers "is it broken right now, and why?" in one free scan. UptimeVitals is the same panel watching continuously, so the answer never has to wait for someone to ask. Questions land with a human: info@uptimevitals.com.
How we work
Plain English, always
If an alert needs a glossary, it failed. Every email says what broke, when, and what to do — in the words an owner uses, not an engineer.
No fake scale
We publish our own status page, monitored like any customer's, and our real numbers with it. Small and honest beats big and vague.
Confirmed, never cried wolf
A downtime alert fires only after a second check agrees. Alert fatigue is a product bug, and we treat it as one.
Your data stays yours
DNS and monitoring data are used to watch your sites — never sold, never mined, never used for advertising.