# YoPingMe

> YoPingMe is a free uptime-monitoring service. It runs HTTP, keyword, SSL,
> ping, and TCP checks every 5 minutes from two regions you choose out of
> five - Frankfurt, Virginia, Singapore, Oregon, and London - and sends email, webhook, and
> Slack alerts only after a second region confirms the failure. Choosing the
> regions is part of the free plan, so a site that is geo-blocked in one
> country does not raise false alarms. The free plan (10 monitors, 30 days of
> raw history) is free for good - no card, no trial clock. Paid plans raise
> those limits and are on sale: Pro ($9/mo or $90/yr) is 50 monitors checked
> every minute, Team ($29/mo or $290/yr) is 250 monitors checked every 30
> seconds, and both lift MCP answers to unlimited uptime history. They are
> bought from the account page after signing up; each starts with a 14-day
> free trial, card required, one per account. Paddle is the merchant of
> record.
> The signup wizard runs a live first check from both your regions while you
> sign up.

Every page listed below with a markdown mirror links to its raw-markdown
version; drop the .md suffix for the HTML page. The full text of all
articles in one file: https://yoping.me/llms-full.txt

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://yoping.me/index.md): what YoPingMe checks, how alerts work, and the plans - Free, Pro, and Team, with prices and the monitor, interval, and MCP limits of each
- [About](https://yoping.me/about.md): what a new service owes you - what ships today, what deliberately does not yet, and why this site fakes no social proof
- [Changelog](https://yoping.me/changelog.md): what shipped and when - product and site, dated
- [FAQ](https://yoping.me/faq.md): straight answers - setting up monitoring, daily uptime tracking, no card at signup, why to trust a new service, UptimeRobot for business use, how payments and refunds work, and why a monitor can report down when the site loads fine
- [Pricing](https://yoping.me/pricing.md): the three plans side by side with their monitor, interval, region, and MCP limits - plus who charges you, the one-trial-per-account rule, and why changing plan is a support request
- [Privacy policy](https://yoping.me/privacy.md): what the site collects - cookieless Cloudflare counts always, Google Analytics only after consent
- [The YoPingMe probe](https://yoping.me/probe.md): what the YoPingMe-Probe user agent is, how often it requests a site and from where, what it reads, and how to allow or block it
- [Allowlisting the YoPingMe probe](https://yoping.me/probe/allowlist.md): how to stop a firewall, CDN, or bot protection from blocking uptime checks - the user agent to match on, why there is no IP list, and a worked Cloudflare example
- [Refund policy](https://yoping.me/refunds.md): how refunds work on paid plans - the 14-day trial first, a 14-day refund window after any charge, Paddle as merchant of record
- [Terms of service](https://yoping.me/terms.md): plain-language terms - acceptable use, plans and billing, as-is honesty
- [WordPress plugin](https://yoping.me/wordpress-plugin.md): your monitors on the WordPress dashboard - current status, uptime over 24 hours, 7 days, and 30 days, an optional status-page strip via the [yopingme_status] shortcode, an optional footer badge, and why no plugin can detect its own site going down

## Features

- [Features](https://yoping.me/features.md): deep pages on standout features - what each one does, its exact limits, and how to use it
- [MCP server](https://yoping.me/features/mcp.md): connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client to your monitoring - five read-only tools for monitors, uptime, incidents and failing checks, plus create_monitor behind an opt-in mcp:write scope, on the free plan with limits stated plainly

## Tools

- [Free tools](https://yoping.me/tools.md): small utilities for people who run websites
- [Uptime calculator](https://yoping.me/tools/uptime-calculator.md): convert an uptime percentage (99.9%, four nines) into allowed downtime per day, week, month, and year
- [Downtime cost calculator](https://yoping.me/tools/downtime-cost-calculator.md): what an hour of downtime costs at your revenue, and yearly cost at each uptime level
- [What is my IP](https://yoping.me/tools/what-is-my-ip.md): your public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, country, answering edge, and HTTP/TLS versions - read in-browser, stored nowhere
- [Is my site down](https://yoping.me/tools/is-my-site-down.md): check a site from outside and past its CDN - a cache-busted second request catches a dead origin hiding behind a cached 200
- [DNS lookup](https://yoping.me/tools/dns-lookup.md): one name asked of Cloudflare and Google at once, answers and TTLs side by side - matching answers mean propagation is done

## Guides

- [Guides](https://yoping.me/guides.md): plain troubleshooting answers for site outages
- [How to check if a website is down (and whether it's just you)](https://yoping.me/guides/how-to-check-if-a-website-is-down.md): four checks in order - another network, DNS, curl, and multi-region
- [How to set up uptime monitoring (in about ten minutes)](https://yoping.me/guides/how-to-set-up-uptime-monitoring.md): the four decisions - what to monitor, which check types, how often, who gets woken - then the typing
- [How to monitor SSL certificate expiry](https://yoping.me/guides/how-to-monitor-ssl-certificate-expiry.md): why calendar reminders and renewal logs both lie, the openssl one-liner, and what automatic watching must cover
- [502 Bad Gateway](https://yoping.me/guides/502-bad-gateway.md): the proxy is up, the upstream isn't - finding the broken hop
- [503 Service Unavailable](https://yoping.me/guides/503-service-unavailable.md): overload vs maintenance mode vs failing health checks
- [504 Gateway Timeout](https://yoping.me/guides/504-gateway-timeout.md): the upstream is too slow - finding the slow hop, and why raising timeouts rarely helps
- [DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN](https://yoping.me/guides/dns-probe-finished-nxdomain.md): typo, expired domain, broken records, or stale cache
- [SSL certificate expired](https://yoping.me/guides/ssl-certificate-expired.md): confirming with openssl, renewing, and catching it early next time
- [ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR](https://yoping.me/guides/err-ssl-protocol-error.md): the TLS handshake itself failed - plain HTTP on port 443, dead protocol versions, and how to read the handshake
- [My site is up for me but down for others](https://yoping.me/guides/up-for-me-but-down-for-others.md): finding the split - hosts files, DNS caches, broken AAAA records, regional CDN failures

## Alternatives

- [Alternatives & comparisons](https://yoping.me/alternatives.md): honest comparisons with other uptime monitors
- [YoPingMe vs UptimeRobot](https://yoping.me/alternatives/uptimerobot.md): where their free plan wins, the 2024-2026 commercial-use terms timeline, and when multi-region consensus matters
- [YoPingMe vs Uptime Kuma](https://yoping.me/alternatives/uptime-kuma.md): hosted vs self-hosted, the honest tradeoff ledger, and a migration map
- [Freshping shut down: honest alternatives](https://yoping.me/alternatives/freshping.md): the shutdown timeline, what replaces 50 checks at 1-minute intervals, and where YoPingMe fits
- [YoPingMe vs Pingdom](https://yoping.me/alternatives/pingdom.md): what $10/month buys (1-minute checks, SMS, transactions), and when a free multi-region monitor is enough
- [YoPingMe vs Better Stack](https://yoping.me/alternatives/betterstack.md): a genuinely strong free plan acknowledged - platform vs pinger, and where multi-region consensus fits
- [YoPingMe vs StatusCake](https://yoping.me/alternatives/statuscake.md): near-identical free cores - their extras vs our multi-region consensus, and what the paid jump buys

## Compare

- [Compare uptime monitors](https://yoping.me/compare.md): neutral A-vs-B comparisons of other uptime monitors - YoPingMe is not a contestant
- [UptimeRobot vs Better Stack](https://yoping.me/compare/uptimerobot-vs-betterstack.md): quantity vs platform - 50 free monitors against an incident platform with 10, dated August 2026 numbers
- [Pingdom vs StatusCake](https://yoping.me/compare/pingdom-vs-statuscake.md): paid-only synthetics vs a real free tier, compared at small-business scale with dated August 2026 numbers
- [YoPingMe vs Hyperping](https://yoping.me/alternatives/hyperping.md): their free plan wins two rows honestly - 20 monitors and a status page - against consensus alerting and webhooks on free

## Integrations

- [Integrations](https://yoping.me/integrations.md): recipes for wiring webhook alerts into other tools
- [Get downtime alerts in Discord](https://yoping.me/integrations/discord.md): a pasteable Cloudflare Worker bridges the signed webhook payload into Discord embeds; documents the full payload contract
- [Get downtime alerts in ntfy](https://yoping.me/integrations/ntfy.md): point the webhook at an ntfy topic - zero glue, one caveat about topic names
- [Get downtime alerts in Telegram](https://yoping.me/integrations/telegram.md): a BotFather bot plus a pasteable relay Worker - plain-text messages on purpose, so markup in a cause string never drops an alert

## Status

- [Service status board](https://yoping.me/status.md): dev services watched from five regions, uptime history and current status per service, measured directly
- [Stripe status](https://yoping.me/status/stripe.md): is Stripe down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and what a Stripe outage means for checkout and subscriptions
- [Cloudflare status](https://yoping.me/status/cloudflare.md): is Cloudflare down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a Cloudflare edge incident can take a site fully offline
- [OpenAI status](https://yoping.me/status/openai.md): is the OpenAI API down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why an API outage looks like a stuck spinner, not a broken page
- [Anthropic status](https://yoping.me/status/anthropic.md): is the Claude API down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why an Anthropic incident often means slow streaming, not a hard failure
- [GitHub status](https://yoping.me/status/github.md): is GitHub down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why the site can load normally while every git push in your team hangs
- [Heroku status](https://yoping.me/status/heroku.md): is Heroku down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a stuck deploy can leave an app looking fine while quietly serving a stale version
- [Vercel status](https://yoping.me/status/vercel.md): is Vercel down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a broken site is more often a bad build than a Vercel outage
- [npm status](https://yoping.me/status/npm.md): is npm down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a registry outage breaks builds but never breaks the app already running
- [Discord status](https://yoping.me/status/discord.md): is Discord down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why voice can break while text keeps working fine
- [Slack status](https://yoping.me/status/slack.md): is Slack down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a Slack outage can silence monitoring alerts that route through it
- [SendGrid status](https://yoping.me/status/sendgrid.md): is SendGrid down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a mail outage can mean emails that are simply never sent, not delayed
- [Paddle status](https://yoping.me/status/paddle.md): is Paddle down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a checkout outage stalls the entire sale, not just one payment step
- [MongoDB status](https://yoping.me/status/mongodb.md): is MongoDB Atlas down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a console outage rarely means your own cluster stopped answering queries
- [Supabase status](https://yoping.me/status/supabase.md): is Supabase down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why individual projects fail far more often than the platform itself
- [Auth0 status](https://yoping.me/status/auth0.md): is Auth0 down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why signed-in users usually keep working through an outage while new logins stop
- [Twilio status](https://yoping.me/status/twilio.md): is Twilio down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why an API accepting your message is not the same as a carrier delivering it
- [DigitalOcean status](https://yoping.me/status/digitalocean.md): is DigitalOcean down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a control panel outage rarely means your droplets stopped serving
- [Netlify status](https://yoping.me/status/netlify.md): is Netlify down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a failing build never means your live site went down too
- [GitLab status](https://yoping.me/status/gitlab.md): is GitLab.com down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why queued pipelines usually mean no runner, not an outage
- [Docker Hub status](https://yoping.me/status/docker-hub.md): is Docker Hub down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why toomanyrequests is rate limiting, not an outage
- [PyPI status](https://yoping.me/status/pypi.md): is PyPI down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why most pip install failures are a missing wheel, not an outage
- [Lemon Squeezy status](https://yoping.me/status/lemon-squeezy.md): is Lemon Squeezy down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why an outage stalls checkout without touching your live product
- [Hetzner status](https://yoping.me/status/hetzner.md): is Hetzner down right now, tracked as separate Cloud API and console boards, and why a console outage does not stop your running servers
- [Resend status](https://yoping.me/status/resend.md): is Resend down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a failed transactional email rarely announces itself
- [Fly.io status](https://yoping.me/status/fly-io.md): is Fly.io down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and how a multi-region app can outlast a single-region incident
- [Neon status](https://yoping.me/status/neon.md): is Neon down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a database that scaled to zero is not the same as an outage
- [RubyGems status](https://yoping.me/status/rubygems.md): is RubyGems down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a stalled bundle install rarely means production is affected
- [Firebase status](https://yoping.me/status/firebase.md): is Firebase down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why one status dot cannot tell you which Firebase product is actually degraded
- [Hugging Face status](https://yoping.me/status/hugging-face.md): is Hugging Face down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a 401 or 403 on a model download is not an outage
- [Clerk status](https://yoping.me/status/clerk.md): is Clerk down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why already-signed-in users usually keep working through an outage
- [PlanetScale status](https://yoping.me/status/planetscale.md): is PlanetScale down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a platform incident usually leaves your production database untouched
- [Railway status](https://yoping.me/status/railway.md): is Railway down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a service restarting on its own is usually your own resource limit, not an outage
- [Render status](https://yoping.me/status/render.md): is Render down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a free instance's slow first request is documented behavior, not an outage
- [Linode status](https://yoping.me/status/linode.md): is Linode (Akamai Cloud Computing) down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a single unreachable server is almost never a platform incident
- [Mailgun status](https://yoping.me/status/mailgun.md): is Mailgun down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why an accepted message landing in spam is a deliverability problem, not an outage
- [Postmark status](https://yoping.me/status/postmark.md): is Postmark down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why sending transactional email through a background queue survives most provider outages
- [CockroachDB status](https://yoping.me/status/cockroachdb.md): is CockroachDB Cloud down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why transaction retry errors are the database working correctly, not a fault
- [Upstash status](https://yoping.me/status/upstash.md): is Upstash down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why the HTTP API exists so serverless functions never exhaust Redis connections
- [Turso status](https://yoping.me/status/turso.md): is Turso down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why embedded replicas keep reads working even when the primary can't be reached
- [Xata status](https://yoping.me/status/xata.md): is Xata down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a record you just wrote can briefly be missing from search results without any data loss
- [Convex status](https://yoping.me/status/convex.md): is Convex down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a frozen realtime UI is usually a dropped websocket, not a platform outage
- [Groq status](https://yoping.me/status/groq.md): is Groq down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a 429 rate-limit response means the API is working, not failing
- [Replicate status](https://yoping.me/status/replicate.md): is Replicate down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a stuck prediction queue is usually a cold model loading, not an outage
- [OpenRouter status](https://yoping.me/status/openrouter.md): is OpenRouter down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a failed completion can belong to the upstream provider, not OpenRouter itself
- [Loops status](https://yoping.me/status/loops.md): is Loops down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why an event that never triggers an email is usually working exactly as configured
- [crates.io status](https://yoping.me/status/crates-io.md): is crates.io down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a Rust binary already built has no runtime relationship with the registry at all
- [Homebrew status](https://yoping.me/status/homebrew.md): is Homebrew down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why most brew failures are actually GitHub, since formulae and bottles live there
- [Deno status](https://yoping.me/status/deno.md): is Deno down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why an unreachable module host can stop a program from starting at all, not just from installing
- [AWS status](https://yoping.me/status/aws.md): is AWS down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why one region or one service having a bad day rarely means the whole platform is affected
- [Google Cloud status](https://yoping.me/status/google-cloud.md): is Google Cloud down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why quota or IAM permission errors are configuration issues, not outages
- [Azure status](https://yoping.me/status/azure.md): is Azure down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why Resource Manager, not the marketing site, is the honest thing to watch
- [Gmail status](https://yoping.me/status/gmail.md): is Gmail down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a missing email is usually a delivery problem, not Gmail being unreachable
- [Google Drive status](https://yoping.me/status/google-drive.md): is Google Drive down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a file that will not open is usually a permissions problem, not an outage
- [Notion status](https://yoping.me/status/notion.md): is Notion down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why the web app and the API can fail independently of each other
- [Zoom status](https://yoping.me/status/zoom.md): is Zoom down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why most join failures trace back to your own network, not Zoom's
- [iCloud status](https://yoping.me/status/icloud.md): is iCloud down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a full storage quota is the most common cause of "broken" sync
- [Dropbox status](https://yoping.me/status/dropbox.md): is Dropbox down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a paused sync client is the most common cause of files that will not update
- [Microsoft 365 status](https://yoping.me/status/microsoft-365.md): is Microsoft 365 down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why tenant configuration causes more organisation-wide outages than the platform itself
- [Microsoft Teams status](https://yoping.me/status/microsoft-teams.md): is Microsoft Teams down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why presence status often lags a minute or two behind reality
- [Shopify status](https://yoping.me/status/shopify.md): is Shopify down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why one storefront being unreachable is usually its own DNS or app, not the platform
- [Salesforce status](https://yoping.me/status/salesforce.md): is Salesforce down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why an org-specific incident rarely means the whole platform is affected
- [Canva status](https://yoping.me/status/canva.md): is Canva down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why autosave during a dropped connection is the main risk, not lost designs
- [Zendesk status](https://yoping.me/status/zendesk.md): is Zendesk down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a custom-domain certificate lapsing looks exactly like a platform outage
- [Atlassian status](https://yoping.me/status/atlassian.md): is Atlassian down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a Jira or Confluence Marketplace app is the most common cause of a site behaving as if it is down
- [Gemini status](https://yoping.me/status/gemini.md): is Gemini down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a 429 rate-limit response means the API is working, not failing
- [Microsoft Copilot status](https://yoping.me/status/copilot.md): is Microsoft Copilot down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why the standalone app and the version embedded in Office can fail independently
- [Google Search status](https://yoping.me/status/google-search.md): is Google Search down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a captcha or "unusual traffic" page means Google is answering, not failing
- [Perplexity status](https://yoping.me/status/perplexity.md): is Perplexity down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why fewer citations than usual reflects the live search behind it, not an outage
- [Character.AI status](https://yoping.me/status/character-ai.md): is Character.AI down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a slow reply on one popular character usually means load, not an outage
- [Uber status](https://yoping.me/status/uber.md): is Uber down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why no nearby drivers is a supply condition, not a platform outage
- [DoorDash status](https://yoping.me/status/doordash.md): is DoorDash down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why few nearby restaurants reflects real availability, not a platform outage
- [Lyft status](https://yoping.me/status/lyft.md): is Lyft down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why no nearby drivers is a supply condition, not a platform outage
- [Airbnb status](https://yoping.me/status/airbnb.md): is Airbnb down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a listing showing unavailable usually reflects the host's own calendar, not an outage
- [Duolingo status](https://yoping.me/status/duolingo.md): is Duolingo down right now, uptime history since August 2026, and why a delayed streak or XP update is usually sync timing, not an outage

## Blog

- [Blog](https://yoping.me/blog.md): notes on uptime monitoring, checks, and alerting
- [YoPingMe is live: free uptime monitoring](https://yoping.me/blog/yopingme-v1-is-live.md): the v1 launch note
- [UptimeRobot's free-plan terms: a dated timeline](https://yoping.me/blog/uptimerobot-free-plan-terms-timeline.md): restricted to non-commercial in late 2024, quietly reverted in 2026 - every turn dated and sourced, our own stale claim included
- [Why no WordPress plugin can tell you your site is down](https://yoping.me/blog/no-wordpress-plugin-can-tell-you-your-site-is-down.md): a plugin runs on the server it is watching, so it goes silent exactly when that server fails - why that is unfixable, and what a plugin can honestly do instead

## App

- [YoPingMe dashboard](https://app.yoping.me/): sign up and manage monitors