How to check if a website is down?

If you just need a quick answer right now, open your browser and try to load the site. If it doesn't respond, check from a different network (mobile data, a VPN, or a tool like isitdownrightnow.com) to rule out problems on your own connection.

If you keep needing to answer that question, you want an uptime monitoring tool instead of refreshing the tab. Oh Dear checks your site every minute from multiple locations, verifies any downtime from a second location before alerting, and tells you over email, Slack, Teams, SMS, and a dozen other channels the moment something goes wrong.

You'll also get a running history of every incident, so "is the site up?" stops being a question you need to answer manually.

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