Monitoring that small businesses can actually afford
UptimeCraft watches your website, your certificates, your DNS and your scheduled jobs, and tells you when something stops working — usually before a customer finds out and tells you themselves.
Why we built it
Knowing your site is down is not a luxury feature. It is the difference between a ten-minute problem and a Monday morning spent apologising. Yet monitoring has a habit of being priced as though only companies with an operations department need it — billed per person, per check, per anything, until a shop with one website and three people is paying a subscription that costs more than its hosting.
We think that is backwards. The businesses least able to absorb a day of downtime are usually the ones least able to justify an enterprise monitoring bill. So we built the thing we wanted: straightforward to set up, honest about what it costs, and boring in the way infrastructure should be.
What we believe
Your team is not a line item
Every paid plan includes unlimited team members. Charging per seat means charging you for adding the person who most needs to see the alert, which is a strange thing for a monitoring company to do.
A free plan that is actually useful
20 monitors, free, with no credit card and no expiry. Not a trial that turns into a bill — enough to genuinely cover a small site, because a free tier you cannot use is just an advertisement.
Tell people what broke
A page can load perfectly while its certificate is twelve days from expiring, or while its DNS quietly points somewhere else. We check those separately, because "the site is up" and "everything is fine" are not the same sentence.
Say only what the software does
Every number on this site comes from the system that enforces it. If a page says a plan includes something, that is the same value the code checks against — not a marketing figure kept in a separate document and updated when someone remembers.
What we watch
Nine kinds of check, because things fail in more than one way:
- ▶Website — is it responding, and quickly
- ▶Keyword — is the right text still on the page
- ▶SSL certificate — how long until it expires
- ▶DNS — does the name still resolve where it should
- ▶Ping — is the host reachable at all
- ▶Port — is the service listening
- ▶UDP — for the services TCP checks cannot see
- ▶API — does the endpoint answer as expected
- ▶Scheduled jobs — did the backup actually run
That last one catches the failure nobody notices: a nightly job that stopped running months ago and never said so. Your job tells us it finished; if it goes quiet, we tell you.
Who is behind it
UptimeCraft is built and operated by Premier Code, Inc., a small software company in Texas. We run our own systems on it, which is the most reliable incentive we know of for keeping it working.
Questions, problems, or something we have got wrong — write to support@uptimecraft.com. A person reads it.
Start watching your site
20 monitors free, no credit card. Paid plans from $9 a month, with unlimited team members.