🌐 How to Check Website Uptime and Monitor Downtime Alerts
Monitoring your website’s uptime helps ensure your visitors — and search engines — can always reach your site. Even short outages can affect your SEO rankings and customer experience. Here’s how to check your site’s uptime and set up alerts to stay informed.
🧭 Step 1: Understand What “Uptime” Means
Uptime is the percentage of time your website is online and accessible to visitors.
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100% uptime = perfect availability (rare, even for big sites).
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99.9% uptime = less than 1 hour of downtime per year.
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Anything below 99.5% may indicate hosting or DNS problems.
💡 TK Internet Marketing hosting plans are monitored 24/7 to ensure maximum uptime performance.
🔍 Step 2: Check if Your Site Is Online
You can quickly test your website’s status using one of these free tools:
Simply enter your domain (e.g., yourdomain.com) and click Check.
These tools will show whether your website is currently up and how quickly it loads from multiple global locations.
⚙️ Step 3: Set Up Free Uptime Monitoring Alerts
To receive automatic notifications when your site goes down, use one of these services:
🟢 UptimeRobot
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Visit https://uptimerobot.com.
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Create a free account.
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Click Add New Monitor → HTTP(s).
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Enter your website URL and friendly name.
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Set your Check Interval (every 5 minutes recommended).
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Add your email address to receive alerts.
🟣 Better Uptime (more advanced)
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Go to https://betteruptime.com.
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Sign up with your business email.
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Add your domain and notification preferences (email, SMS, Slack, etc.).
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Review reports and response times in your dashboard.
💡 These tools are free for basic monitoring and provide detailed reports for premium users.
🧩 Step 4: Check Your Hosting Service Status
If your site appears down:
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Log in to your Client Area: https://clients.tkinternetmarketing.com/clientarea.php.
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Go to Services → My Services → View Details for your hosting plan.
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Look for a Service Status or System Health link (if available).
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If no outage is listed, open a Website Support ticket so our team can investigate further.
🧱 Step 5: Diagnose Repeated Downtime
If downtime happens often:
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Check your DNS settings (they may need updating).
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Review your hosting resource limits (CPU, RAM, storage).
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Ensure no expired domain or SSL is interrupting access.
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Our team can migrate your site to a higher-performance plan if needed.
🧮 Step 6: Review Monthly Uptime Reports
If you’re enrolled in a Managed Hosting or SEO plan with TK Internet Marketing:
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You’ll receive uptime and performance data in your monthly report.
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The report includes total uptime %, response time averages, and any incident details.
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Contact our team anytime for a full uptime history or server log review.
💬 Need Help?
If your site is offline or you’re receiving frequent downtime alerts, open a ticket at https://clients.tkinternetmarketing.com/clientarea.php or email support@tkinternetmarketing.com.
Our technicians will diagnose the cause and help restore stability immediately.
