Website Monitoring for Small Businesses

A small business website doesn't need a giant operations team to be important.

For many businesses, the website is where people find opening information, send enquiries, request quotes, book appointments, or learn whether the business is legitimate.

If it stops working, the owner may not notice immediately.

The problem with being the only person watching

Small businesses often have one person who knows how the website works.

That person may also be handling customers, invoices, marketing, suppliers, and everything else.

Website monitoring removes one small responsibility from the list.

Instead of remembering to check the site, you receive an email when a monitored problem is detected.

What to monitor

At a minimum: is the website responding, is it recovering after an outage, is the response becoming slow, and is the SSL certificate approaching expiry?

You don't need a complicated dashboard to answer those questions.

A simple setup

Add the website. Choose the checking interval. Then leave the monitor running.

VeePulse keeps a 30-day uptime history and shows response-time information so you can see more than just a green or red status.