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Small business website monitor for the one-person team that has no developer on call.

A 1-to-10-person team does not have an SRE on call; Monday morning, the website just has to be answering. SiteGuardian watches the URLs a local customer types, on a minute cadence, with one loud email per failure. No plugin, no SDK, no install — paste the URL and the watch is up.

  • Watches your home page, contact page, booking page, and hours card on a minute cadence.
  • Tight slow threshold on the booking or contact form. 1.5 seconds is sane.
  • No developer required — paste the URL, set a threshold, choose an email. The probe starts the next minute.
  • Probes from multiple regions so a single-region CDN blip does not falsely trip the alert.
  • SSL expiry alerts on every plan. The cert that quietly failed to renew overnight.
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How it works

Setup, in three beats.

  1. Step 01

    Add the URL a local customer types first

    Paste your home page, your contact or booking page, and any /hours or /location card. Set a tight slow threshold on the contact page (1.5 seconds is sane) and a slightly looser one on the home page. SiteGuardian starts probing inside the next minute.

  2. Step 02

    Let the watch survive every quiet weekend

    Most small-business sites get a lot of traffic during weekday hours and very little overnight. The minute cadence catches the same-day failure — a form that breaks at 11 AM Tuesday, not the discovery a week later when the inbox stays empty.

  3. Step 03

    Catch the outage before a customer gives up

    A booking page that returns 500 on a Friday afternoon loses that afternoon’s deposits. SiteGuardian probes every minute on Pro, so the email reaches the owner’s phone the second the page stops answering — same minute, same inbox.

What the alert actually says

One email. One URL. One timestamp.

Your URL https://yourbusiness.com/contact/ answered with HTTP 500 at 09:14 UTC. The probe will retry in 60 seconds.
Small business website monitor alert · SiteGuardian default

Frequently asked

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Starter is $19 a month — one site, ten URLs, every-five-minute checks. Pro is $39 a month — three sites, fifty URLs, every-minute checks. Lifetime is $299 paid once and stays yours with every future update included.

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