# 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.

Published: 2026-07-26 | Updated: 2026-08-09 | Canonical: https://yoping.me/blog/yopingme-v1-is-live

> **Updated August 5, 2026.** Two things changed since this went out. Monitors
> are now checked from two regions you choose rather than from all three, so a
> site that is geo-blocked in one country stops raising false alarms. And this
> post originally said an outage is confirmed "from all 3 regions" - that was
> never how it worked. An alert has always waited for a second region to
> agree, not a third. The post below is corrected. This page used to live at
> `/blog/free-uptime-monitoring-from-three-regions`, which now redirects here.

Uptime monitoring is one of those tools everyone needs and nobody wants to
think about. The big suites solved this by making you think about it *a lot*:
setup wizards, per-seat pricing, sales calls. We wanted the other thing - paste
a URL, pick where to get yelled at, go back to work.

So that's what we built. YoPingMe is live, and the whole v1 is free.

## What it does today

- **Five kinds of checks** - HTTP, keyword, SSL, ping, and TCP, each monitor
  checked every 5 minutes.
- **Checks from more than one place** - probes ran in Frankfurt, Virginia, and
  Singapore at launch (Oregon and London joined August 5, 2026), and every
  monitor is checked from two locations that you choose.
- **Alerts that wait for consensus** - before anything pages you, the outage
  is confirmed by a second region. A hiccup on one network path is not an
  incident, and we treat it that way.
- **Email, webhook, and Slack alerts** - with sane defaults, so a single
  dropped packet doesn't page anybody.
- **30 days of raw history** - response times and check results, so you can
  spot the slow creep before it becomes an outage.

The signup wizard runs a live first check from both your regions while you're
still typing - you'll see real results before you've picked a password.

## What "free" means here

There is exactly one plan right now: **$0 for 10 monitors**. No card, no
trial clock, no contact-sales button. Paid plans with higher limits are on
the roadmap, but today the free plan is the whole product.

## What's next

This is a roadmap, not a feature list - none of it exists yet: status pages,
SMS alerts, paid plans, a full REST API, teams, and more regions.

If your site goes down and nobody yells at you, did it even go down?
[Find out the reliable way](https://app.yoping.me/signup) - your first check runs
before you finish signing up.