{"id":7264,"date":"2026-07-30T11:10:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/checksitestatus.com\/?p=7264"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:19:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:19:04","slug":"detect-website-outages-and-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/checksitestatus.com\/fr\/detect-website-outages-and-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Detect Website Outages and Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7264\" class=\"elementor elementor-7264\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8cd675f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8cd675f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4b33d25\" data-id=\"4b33d25\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46789ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"46789ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:226;64-289\">The worst way to learn your site is broken is an email that opens with &#8220;hey, is your website down?&#8221; By the time that message lands, the visitor already gave up, and probably a few dozen others did too without saying anything.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"5:1-5:357;291-647\">That gap between &#8220;something broke&#8221; and &#8220;someone told me&#8221; is the only part of an outage you actually control. You can&#8217;t stop your host from having a bad afternoon. You can&#8217;t stop a CDN provider from pushing a config change that withdraws your routes. What you can control is how quickly you find out, and whether you find out from a tool or from a customer.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"7:1-7:210;649-858\">CheckSiteStatus exists for that first minute. You paste a URL, and you get a real answer about whether the site is reachable, how fast it responds, and what the server sends back: no account, no setup, no waiting.<br \/><br \/><\/p><h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"9:1-9:46;860-905\"><strong>What counts as an outage, and what doesn&#8217;t<\/strong><\/h2><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"11:1-11:157;907-1063\">Most people picture downtime as a blank page. In practice, full hard-down failures are the minority. The messier cases are the ones that cost money quietly:<br \/><br \/><\/p><ul class=\"[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"13:1-17:80;1065-1472\"><li class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\" data-sourcepos=\"13:1-13:53;1065-1117\">The homepage loads fine, but checkout throws a 500.<\/li><li class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\" data-sourcepos=\"14:1-14:101;1118-1218\">The site responds in 14 seconds instead of 800 milliseconds, so visitors leave before it finishes.<\/li><li class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\" data-sourcepos=\"15:1-15:69;1219-1287\">Users in Germany can&#8217;t reach you while everyone in the US is fine.<\/li><li class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\" data-sourcepos=\"16:1-16:105;1288-1392\">The page loads, but an expired SSL certificate makes the browser throw a full-screen security warning.<\/li><li class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\" data-sourcepos=\"17:1-17:80;1393-1472\">The server returns a 200 OK while serving a defaced page or a blank template.<br \/><br \/><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"19:1-19:254;1474-1727\">That last one matters more than people expect. A status code of 200 only means the server answered. It says nothing about whether the answer was correct. This is why checking content, not just availability, is worth doing on pages that generate revenue.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"21:1-21:404;1729-2132\">Then there&#8217;s the oldest question in support tickets: is it down for everyone, or just me? Your own browser is a terrible witness. Cached DNS, a stale service worker, an office firewall, a VPN route, or a single ISP having a bad day can all convince you the site is dead when it&#8217;s perfectly healthy for everyone else. An external checker answers this in one step because it isn&#8217;t sitting on your network.<br \/><br \/><\/p><h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"23:1-23:38;2134-2171\"><strong>How fast you actually need to know<\/strong><\/h2><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"25:1-25:470;2173-2642\">The numbers here are blunt. ITIC&#8217;s 2024 downtime survey found that more than 90% of mid-size and large enterprises put the cost of an hour of downtime above $300,000, and 41% put it between $1 million and $5 million. The Uptime Institute&#8217;s 2026 outage analysis reported that roughly one in five significant outages now exceeds $1 million. Gartner&#8217;s much older $5,600-per-minute figure gets quoted constantly, and even that dated benchmark works out to $336,000 an hour.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"27:1-27:282;2644-2925\">Small sites don&#8217;t lose $300,000 an hour. But the math scales down without getting less painful. Take your annual revenue, divide by 8,760, and you have a rough hourly figure before you add support time, ad spend burning on dead landing pages, and the customers who don&#8217;t come back.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"29:1-29:320;2927-3246\">There&#8217;s a second reason speed matters, and it has nothing to do with revenue. Long outages hurt search rankings. If Googlebot hits repeated 5xx responses over days rather than hours, crawling slows and pages start dropping. A 20-minute blip is noise. A 20-hour blip is a problem you&#8217;ll still be paying for in six weeks.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"31:1-31:485;3248-3732\">Uptime Institute&#8217;s 2026 report also flagged a shift in causes: networking and connectivity problems now account for about 23% of IT service outages, edging ahead of power at 21%, and network incidents have more than doubled against the 2020 to 2025 average. Facilities have gotten better at keeping the lights on. The network layer has gotten more fragile. That means more of your failures will come from something you don&#8217;t own, which makes external monitoring more useful, not less.<br \/><br \/><\/p><h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"33:1-33:30;3734-3763\"><strong>The signals worth watching<\/strong><\/h2><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"35:1-35:65;3765-3829\">Availability is one signal. Five others tell you more about why.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"37:1-37:306;3831-4136\">Response time is the early warning system. Sites rarely fall over without warning. They get slow first, usually because a database query is stacking up or the server is running out of workers. If your typical response is 600ms and you&#8217;re seeing 4 seconds, you have maybe an hour before that becomes a 504.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"39:1-39:131;4138-4268\">HTTP status codes tell you which layer broke. More on this below, because it&#8217;s the single most useful diagnostic you get for free.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"41:1-41:222;4270-4491\">DNS resolution is the failure nobody checks until it&#8217;s the problem. Expired domains, a nameserver change that didn&#8217;t propagate, a registrar lock, a deleted A record after a migration. The site is fine. Nobody can find it.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"43:1-43:334;4493-4826\">SSL certificate expiry is the most preventable outage in existence, and it still happens to large companies every year. Auto-renewal fails silently, nobody notices, and one morning every visitor gets a browser interstitial telling them your site is dangerous. Certificates have a date on them. There is no excuse for being surprised.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"45:1-45:215;4828-5042\">Content integrity catches the cases where the status code lies. If a critical phrase disappears from your pricing page, or unfamiliar text shows up, you want to know without reading the page yourself every morning.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"47:1-47:231;5044-5274\">Geography catches the rest. Routing problems, regional cloud incidents, and country-level blocks all produce outages that only exist for part of your audience. Checking from a single location gives you a single location&#8217;s opinion.<br \/><br \/><\/p><h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"49:1-49:39;5276-5314\"><strong>Reading the error your visitors see<\/strong><\/h2><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"51:1-51:69;5316-5384\">When a check comes back red, the status code narrows the cause fast:<\/p><div class=\"overflow-x-auto w-full px-2 mb-6 print:overflow-x-visible\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"53:1-62:89;5386-6273\"><table class=\"min-w-full border-collapse text-sm leading-[1.7] whitespace-normal\"><thead class=\"text-left\"><tr><th class=\"text-text-100 border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.6)] py-2 pr-4 align-top font-bold\" scope=\"col\">Code<\/th><th class=\"text-text-100 border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.6)] py-2 pr-4 align-top font-bold\" scope=\"col\">What it usually means<\/th><th class=\"text-text-100 border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.6)] py-2 pr-4 align-top font-bold\" scope=\"col\">Where to look first<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">500<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">The application crashed while handling the request<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">Recent deploy, error logs, a plugin or dependency update<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">502<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">A proxy got an invalid response from the server behind it<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">PHP-FPM, Node process, or upstream service that died<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">503<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">The server is overloaded or in maintenance mode<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">Traffic spike, resource limits, maintenance flag left on<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">504<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">The upstream took too long to answer<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">Slow queries, external API calls, timeout settings<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">403<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">Access denied<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">Firewall or WAF rule, file permissions, IP block<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">429<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">Too many requests<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">Rate limiting, sometimes triggered by your own monitoring<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">Connection refused<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">Nothing is listening on the port<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">Web server stopped, host down, firewall change<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">DNS failure<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">The domain won&#8217;t resolve<\/td><td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\">Nameservers, expired domain, missing record<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"64:1-64:549;6275-6823\">The two you&#8217;ll meet most often on WordPress and other PHP stacks are 502 and 504, and they&#8217;re easy to confuse because both point at the layer behind your web server. The difference is whether that layer answered badly or didn&#8217;t answer in time. If you want the full diagnostic path for each, we&#8217;ve written them up separately: <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/checksitestatus.com\/what-does-502-bad-gateway-mean\/\">what a 502 bad gateway actually means and how to fix it<\/a>, and <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/checksitestatus.com\/504-gateway-timeout\/\">the causes and fixes for a 504 gateway timeout<\/a>.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"66:1-66:177;6825-7001\">One thing worth internalising: a 5xx is your problem; a 4xx is usually a request problem. Teams waste hours debugging application code for what turns out to be a firewall rule.<br \/><br \/><\/p><h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"68:1-68:30;7003-7032\"><strong>Checking a site in seconds<\/strong><\/h2><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"70:1-70:33;7034-7066\"><strong>The immediate workflow is short:<\/strong><\/p><ol class=\"[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"72:1-76:161;7068-7699\"><li class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\" data-sourcepos=\"72:1-72:62;7068-7129\">Paste the full URL, including https, into CheckSiteStatus.<\/li><li class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\" data-sourcepos=\"73:1-73:110;7130-7239\">Read the status code and the response time together. A 200 with a 9-second response is not a healthy site.<\/li><li class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\" data-sourcepos=\"74:1-74:171;7240-7410\">If the check says the site is up and you still can&#8217;t reach it, the fault is between you and the server. Flush your DNS cache, try mobile data, try an incognito window.<\/li><li class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\" data-sourcepos=\"75:1-75:128;7411-7538\">If the check says the site is down, look at what came back. A 503 and a DNS failure send you to completely different places.<\/li><li class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\" data-sourcepos=\"76:1-76:161;7539-7699\">Check your host&#8217;s status page before you start debugging your own code. If their platform is having an incident, there is nothing in your application to fix.<br \/><br \/><\/li><\/ol><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"78:1-78:161;7701-7861\">Step five saves more time than the other four combined. During a large provider incident, thousands of sites go down simultaneously, and none of them have a bug.<br \/><br \/><\/p><h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"80:1-80:26;7863-7888\"><strong>Stop checking manually<\/strong><\/h2><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"82:1-82:164;7890-8053\">Manual checks answer &#8220;is it down right now.&#8221; They can&#8217;t answer &#8220;was it down at 3 am on Sunday,&#8221; which is when most quiet outages happen and when nobody is watching.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"84:1-84:185;8055-8239\"><strong>Continuous monitoring solves that, but only if the alerting is configured with some restraint. Get this wrong, and you build an alarm nobody reads. A few rules that hold up in practice:<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"86:1-86:199;8241-8439\">Check often enough to matter. A 60-minute interval means you can be down for 59 minutes before the first ping. One to five minutes is the range where alerts arrive while the incident is still small.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"88:1-88:210;8441-8650\">Require confirmation from a second location before alerting. Single-probe failures are frequently the probe&#8217;s fault, not yours, and one false alarm at 4 am costs you credibility for every real alert afterwards.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"90:1-90:139;8652-8790\">Route alerts to a channel people actually see. Email at night is functionally a log file. SMS, push, or a paged Slack channel is an alert.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"92:1-92:83;8792-8874\">Alert on slowness too, not only on hard failures. Degradation is the warning shot.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"94:1-94:181;8876-9056\">Monitor the paths that make money, not just the homepage. Login, search, checkout, and the API endpoint your mobile app depends on can each fail while the front page looks perfect.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"96:1-96:212;9058-9269\">The setup takes about ten minutes if you follow a structured walkthrough. Ours is here: <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/checksitestatus.com\/how-to-set-up-uptime-alerts-a-step-by-step-guide\/\">how to set up uptime alerts, step by step<\/a>.<br \/><br \/><\/p><h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"98:1-98:34;9271-9304\"><strong>Mistakes that keep teams blind<\/strong><\/h2><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"100:1-100:144;9306-9449\">Monitoring from inside your own network is the classic one. If your check runs on the same server, both go down together and you learn nothing.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"102:1-102:146;9451-9596\">Trusting a 200 as proof of health is the second. Add a keyword check on pages that matter so you&#8217;re validating content and not just connectivity.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"104:1-104:180;9598-9777\">Ignoring SSL and domain expiry dates is the third, and it&#8217;s the one that ends careers in small hosting teams. Both are calendar problems with a known date. Put them in a calendar.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"106:1-106:208;9779-9986\">And the quiet one: never recording anything. If you don&#8217;t keep a history, you can&#8217;t tell your host &#8220;this is the fourth time this month,&#8221; and you can&#8217;t tell whether your uptime is improving or slowly rotting.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa497f1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-accordion\" data-id=\"fa497f1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"accordion.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-accordion\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2621\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2621\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon elementor-accordion-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-plus\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-opened\"><i class=\"fas fa-minus\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-accordion-title\" tabindex=\"0\">How do I know whether a website is down for everyone or just me?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2621\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2621\"><p>Run the URL through an external checker like CheckSiteStatus. It tests from outside your network, so if it reports the site as reachable, the problem is local to you: DNS cache, browser cache, ISP routing, firewall, or VPN. Clearing your DNS cache and trying a different network usually confirms it in under a minute.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2622\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2622\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon elementor-accordion-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-plus\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-opened\"><i class=\"fas fa-minus\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-accordion-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Why does my site show a 200 OK status when visitors say it's broken?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2622\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2622\"><p>A 200 only confirms the server responded. It doesn&#8217;t confirm the response was correct. Broken JavaScript, a failed database call inside a page that still renders, a blank template, or a hacked page can all return 200. Content monitoring that looks for a specific phrase on the page catches these cases where a plain availability check won&#8217;t.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2623\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2623\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon elementor-accordion-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-plus\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-opened\"><i class=\"fas fa-minus\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-accordion-title\" tabindex=\"0\">How often should I check my website's status?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2623\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2623\"><p>For a personal blog, every 15 to 30 minutes is reasonable. For anything transactional, use one to five minutes. The interval sets your worst-case detection time, so a 30-minute check means you can be offline for 29 minutes before anyone knows.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2624\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2624\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon elementor-accordion-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-plus\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-opened\"><i class=\"fas fa-minus\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-accordion-title\" tabindex=\"0\">What's the difference between a 502 and a 504 error?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2624\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2624\"><p>Both involve the server behind your web server, which is why they get mixed up. A 502 means that the upstream service sent back something invalid, usually because it crashed or isn&#8217;t running. A 504 means it never answered within the timeout window, usually because a query or an external API call is too slow. A 502 tends to point at a dead process, a 504 at a slow one.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2625\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2625\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon elementor-accordion-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-plus\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-opened\"><i class=\"fas fa-minus\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-accordion-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Can website downtime hurt my SEO rankings?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2625\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2625\"><p>Short outages generally don&#8217;t. Google retries, and a few minutes of 5xx responses is treated as a temporary condition. Sustained downtime is different: if crawlers hit errors repeatedly across days, crawl rate drops and pages can fall out of the index. Returning a 503 during planned maintenance is the correct signal, because it tells crawlers to come back rather than suggesting the page is gone.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"How do I know whether a website is down for everyone or just me?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"<p>Run the URL through an external checker like CheckSiteStatus. It tests from outside your network, so if it reports the site as reachable, the problem is local to you: DNS cache, browser cache, ISP routing, firewall, or VPN. 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Cloudflare had a six-hour incident in February 2026 caused by a configuration change, and Meta went dark for millions of users in July. If they can&#8217;t guarantee uptime, neither can you.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"129:1-129:137;12231-12367\">What you can guarantee is that you&#8217;ll know first. Check the site now, then set up an alert so you never have to remember to check again.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worst way to learn your site is broken is an email that opens with &#8220;hey, is your website down?&#8221; By the time that message lands, the visitor already gave up, and probably a few dozen others did too without saying anything. 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