Uptime Kuma
A free, self-hosted website monitor: it checks sites every minute, alerts you when one breaks, and gives each client a public status page.
What you can do with it
- Alerts within a minute when a client's site or booking page breaks
- Warnings before SSL certificates and domain names expire
- A public status page and uptime figures to show clients
Worth knowingIt only checks while it's running, so for paying clients it needs an always-on machine or a small VPS, not a laptop that sleeps.
The full tutorial
01Install Uptime KumaFREE02Tell it how to reach youMEMBERS03Add the two checks that matterMEMBERS04Break a website on purposeMEMBERS05Give the client a status pageMEMBERS06Unfair advantages: find the sites that are about to breakMEMBERS07Turn it into a monthly serviceMEMBERS08Put it on a server, with HTTPS on your own subdomainMEMBERS
Know before your clients do when their website goes down · ~85 min · tested 2026-10-09
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