ServiceUptime
ServiceUptime remotely checks website availability and performance, then alerts users when it finds a problem.
What ServiceUptime is
ServiceUptime remotely checks website availability and performance, then alerts users when it finds a problem. Its monitoring covers web pages, PING, HTTP/HTTPS, links, mail and download servers, DNS, MySQL, and custom servers or ports. Users can select checks every 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes, depending on the plan. The free account includes one service checked every 30 or 60 minutes; paid options include plans with different monitor limits and intervals. Start is $5.95 a month, Standard is $9.95 a month, Advanced is $29.95 a month, and Professional is $89.95 a month, all billed monthly. A free plan and 14-day trial are listed. Alerts can be sent by email or SMS, and webhooks and an API are available for custom alerting. ServiceUptime verifies detected problems from multiple monitoring locations before sending an alert. It also provides uptime and performance reports, lifetime statistics, and public monitoring statistics for websites.
Good
- Checks websites, servers, DNS, MySQL, and links
- Check intervals range from 1 to 60 minutes
- Multiple locations verify problems before alerts
- Provides uptime, performance, and lifetime statistics
Watch out
- Free account checks one service every 30 or 60 minutes
- SMS alerts require separately purchased packs
- Paid plans have different monitor and interval limits
Who it suits
It suits individuals monitoring a website as well as webmasters managing multiple hosts. Teams needing availability checks, performance reports, and configurable alerts can choose among different monitoring plans.
Verdict
ServiceUptime combines broad monitoring coverage with email and SMS alerts, reporting, and options for custom alerting. Compare each plan’s monitor count and check interval against the services you need to watch.
Plans and prices
From ServiceUptime's own pricing page, checked 20 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 1 monitor · 30 or 60 minute checks |
| Professional | $89.95 a month | 10 monitors · 2-minute checks · monthly |
| Free Monitoring | Free | 1 monitoring service · checked every 30 or 60 minutes · worldwide locations |
| Start | $5.95 a month | 3 monitors · checked every 5 min · worldwide locations · SMS/email notifications · $5.95 per month; $4.95/mo when paid yearly |
| Standard | $9.95 a month | 6 monitors · checked every 5 min · worldwide locations · SMS/email notifications · $9.95 per month; $8.30/mo when paid yearly |
| Advanced | $29.95 a month | 3 monitors · checked every 1 min · worldwide locations · SMS/email notifications · $29.95 per month; $24.95/mo when paid yearly |
| Corporate | — | Custom plan · Designed to scale with company needs |
The facts
Each one read from ServiceUptime's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Alert channels
- email,SMS,webhookchecked 20 Sep 2026
- Alerts
- Outage alerts are available by email and SMS, and the services page also lists webhook alerts and an API for custom alerting applications.checked 8 Oct 2026
- API
- The services page says users can use the ServiceUptime API to build their own application and alerting.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Check interval
- 5 minuteschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Check intervals
- Users can select monitoring intervals of 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes.checked 8 Oct 2026
- False alert checks
- The service verifies detected problems from multiple monitoring locations before sending an alert.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The Start plan page recommends the plan to individuals monitoring one website, while the Standard plan page recommends professional monitoring for webmasters with over 10 hosts.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Keyword monitoring
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Monitoring checks
- It supports checks for web pages, PING, HTTP/HTTPS, links, mail servers, download servers, DNS, MySQL, and custom servers or ports.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Monitor limit
- 3checked 20 Sep 2026
- Public statistics
- Users can display public monitoring statistics on their own website, including a button that shows real uptime.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- ServiceUptime remotely monitors website availability and performance and alerts users when it detects a problem.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Reports
- It provides uptime and performance reports and lifetime monitoring statistics, which the site says are never deleted.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Security and privacy
- The privacy policy says account sessions are encrypted using SSL and that ServiceUptime does not store credit-card billing information on its side.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Server monitoring
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Support
- The contact page says a representative will respond within 24 hours, while the FAQ says support and sales teams are available 24/7.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Webhook integration
- Premium plans include webhooks that send JSON data to a user-provided URL when an event such as a server outage occurs.checked 8 Oct 2026
The company
- Company history
- ServiceUptime says it was established in 2005 and describes itself as a privately held company.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2005checked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free account limits
- A free account includes one service checked every 30 or 60 minutes; SMS alerts are available in separately purchased packs.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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