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Notes on uptime monitoring from the people building YoPingMe: checks, alerting, and keeping sites honest from probe locations on three continents.
Why no WordPress plugin can tell you your site is down
Uptime plugins run on the server they are watching, so they go silent exactly when it fails. Why that is unfixable, and what a plugin can honestly do.
- basics
- wordpress
UptimeRobot's free-plan terms: a dated timeline
UptimeRobot restricted its free plan to non-commercial use in late 2024, then quietly lifted the restriction in 2026. The dated timeline, with primary sources.
- comparisons
YoPingMe is live: free uptime monitoring
What shipped in YoPingMe v1: five kinds of check every 5 minutes, and alerts that wait for a second region to agree before paging you.
- announcements