Have you ever visited your own website only to find it won’t load? If you have you’ve probably panicked and wondered if it’s just a problem with your computer or is the website down and inaccessible to the whole world. Perhaps you’ve then tried another computer or contacted a friend to ask if they can access the website to confirm your fears.
Before you contact your web host to enquire why your website is down you can use some free online tools to determine whether the problem is at your end or if your website is really down for the whole world.
Try some of these free online tools, there is no need for download, just type the URL of your website into one of the following online tools:
Down For Everyone Or Just Me?
Status
- (thanks to the anonymous commenter)
If you find that your website is down for everyone then it might be time to contact your web host, or or perhaps even a sign that you should consider moving to a more reliable web host.
Here is another one to check website status http://www.status.ws that checks status from Google servers.
Thanks for that, I’ve added it to the post.
Great Post vin
love the site.
Thanks Brad!
here is a free tool(monitey) which i use to check my website. If runs in background and gives error message when website is down!
http://www.monitey.com/
Thanks for the tip Ravi. 🙂
there is also http://downorjust.me
Awesome stuff. Another good one is:
http://whysitedown.com
It provides diagnostics on what is causing the site to go down.
Thanks Jenny. That tool may work for Facebook.com but it didn’t work with any other URL I tried. So it would not be a very reliable tool for testing your own website as it will tell you it is not found even when it is up and running.