Website Monitoring for Small and Medium Businesses
You run an SMB and don’t have an IT department watching logs at night. Your website still needs to work – otherwise customers call the owner. live24h is set up in 5 minutes, needs no DevOps knowledge and only calls you when it really matters.
The Problem: Your Website is Down, and You’re the Last to Know
Classic SMB case: your IT provider is external, hosting lives somewhere, and when the website goes down, customers call the boss. Concretely:
- No monitoring – or an old one nobody has opened in years
- No alerts – the server is down but no message arrives
- SSL certificate expires – and nobody remembers in time
- Over-engineered tooling, built for DevOps teams with their own operations staff, not for you
- Status page? Would be nice – but an extra piece of software for 1-3 sites doesn’t pay off
In short: you don’t need a monitoring system built for Netflix. You need something that runs when your company site goes down – and tells you in time.
The Solution: Monitoring That Works Without a DevOps Team
live24h is explicitly built for SMBs and company websites:
- Setup in 5 minutes – enter URL, set alert address, done
- No configuration needed – sensible defaults for the normal case
- Alerts where you see them – email, Telegram, Slack, SMS (optional)
- SSL and domain warnings included – 30/14/7/1 days before expiry
- Free status page – communicate transparently when something breaks
- English and German UI + native-language support – no translation rabbit hole
What Do You Typically Monitor?
For a typical company website, 5-10 checks are enough:
| Check | Why |
|---|---|
| Home page | The most important page |
| Contact form / imprint | Legally required |
| Shop or appointment booking (if any) | Revenue-critical |
| SSL certificate | Browsers block otherwise |
| Domain expiry | Mini-apocalypse when forgotten |
| DNS | In case someone accidentally changes it |
This easily fits into the free plan (15 slots, 5-min interval, 1 region) – enough for smaller sites. If you want more, Pro at EUR 9.90/month (25 slots, 1 min, multi-region).
When the Website Works and Nobody Comes Anyway
An outage is loud. The second case is quiet: after a relaunch or an update, your page carries an instruction telling search engines not to show it in the results. The site is reachable, it looks fine, and yet new customers no longer find it. If you don’t look at your analytics every day, you notice only when enquiries dry up.
live24h SEO monitoring watches these signals for you and reports back when something changes. You don’t need to understand any of it and you don’t need to set anything up.
If You Also Sell Something
Many company websites run a small shop or offer a handful of products. That is what price monitoring is for: every day, live24h checks what your products cost elsewhere and whether they are in stock there. Only publicly accessible product pages are observed, and you decide which ones.
Look at price monitoring or go straight to the page for shops if selling is your main business.
Alert Channels: Where You’ll Actually See Them
We know: nobody checks email in the evening. So live24h supports:
- Email – for the record and quiet cases
- Telegram – for the boss channel everyone has on their phone
- Slack / Microsoft Teams – for the internal team or the IT agency
- SMS (Business and up) – when it really burns
- Webhook – for anyone who wants to build on top
Every alert contains an acknowledge button via email – one click, further escalation stops. No login, no app download.
Status Page: Communicate Before the Phone Rings
A free status page at your-company.status.live24h.eu (or own domain
from Pro upwards):
- Customers see: “website currently unavailable, team is working on it”
- Instead of 20 calls to reception, you get 20 happy refreshes of the status page
- History of recent incidents – shows that things usually run smoothly
- Subscribable for important customers
Why live24h for SMBs?
| live24h | Classic DevOps tooling | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | 5 minutes, no training | Multiple days, often with a consultant |
| English/German UI and support | Yes | Rarely |
| GDPR / DPA readily available | Yes | Often enterprise-only |
| Entry price | EUR 0 (free) | Often three-digit per month |
| SSL + domain warnings | Standard | Often extra setup |
| Built for non-DevOps? | Yes | No |
Start Free Now
The free plan (15 checks, 5-min interval) is free forever. If you need more, start the 14-day free Pro trial.
Read on:
- All plans and pricing: Pricing
- Shop monitoring: E-Commerce
- Monitoring for agencies: Agencies
Questions? Contact us: support@live24h.eu