“Downtime” is the one word hated by all site owners whether they are running a mission critical site like a stock exchange or a simple information site. Though it is not good to have a downtime it is very necessary to monitor your site’s status and take quick actions to bring it back online if it is down. This article explains how to monitor downtime of a WordPress site (self-hosted version with WordPress.org).
Why My Site Should Go Down?
You may not like it but there are plenty of reasons for a website to go down. Here are some simple cases:
Mostly you check your site’s availability whenever modifying theme’s core files like “wp-config.php” or installing/upgrading plugins. So probably you don’t need to monitor your own activities in this case. But what about planned and unplanned server downtimes which is normal in shared hosting scenario. Sometime you may not even know that your site is not online for a while unless you find it accidentally. Since opening and checking the site is not feasible throughout a day you need to implement a simple measure which will work for you and monitor your site’s status continuously. Self-hosted WordPress site comes with unlimited features and provides complete control over your site and hosting company. Plugins are the power booster to your WordPress site helps to do almost anything you can imagine. For downtime monitoring we recommend to use Jetpack one of the most popular WordPress plugin available in the repository for free. Install and activate Jetpack plugin and connect your site to WordPress.com account. Unfortunately it is mandatory to connect to WordPress.com account in order to use Jetpack features. Jetpack is a package of plugins combined together and has many modules; find and activate the “Monitor” module. Activate Monitor Module in Jetpack Once activated, click on “Configure” button to set the email address in which you will receive notifications. This will be your WordPress.com account email address and you can change it anytime by logging into WordPress.com. Jetpack Monitor Configure Email That’s it!!! Now your site is being monitored 24/7 by Jetpack automatically and you will receive instant email whenever the site goes down as below. You will also get an alert email the moment site comes back online as below. Jetpack Site Down Notification This is one of the free and easy ways to monitor server downtime of your WordPress site. Jetpack Site Up Notification Email Jetpack will only monitor server down time and your own activities causing the site unreachable will not be monitored since the server will be up and running fine. When you receive a downtime email from Jetpack, check the below things without getting panic.
How to Monitor Downtime of a WordPress Site?
What Should I to Bring the Site Up?
If the hosting server has lot of downtime affecting your site’s performance or sales then its time for you to change the hosting or go for dedicated hosting instead of shared hosting.
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