Uptime monitoring for businesses that can’t afford to find out from customers.
Most business owners don’t think about monitoring until after an outage. Here’s why catching it first matters.
Recent SMB data puts website downtime cost between $137 and $427 per minute for small businesses — and that’s before you factor in lost trust and customers who don’t come back. A four-hour outage at the bottom of that range still costs over $32,000.
When customers complain about performance, you’re stuck guessing whether it’s your site, their ISP, or their wifi. PingForce’s separate Ping tool lets you test from probe locations worldwide on demand, so you can prove what’s actually happening.
Most monitoring tools are priced for Fortune 500 budgets — $300–$800 per host per month, before you even add features. PingForce starts at free, with serious coverage at $15/month. No sales calls. No procurement.
Per-minute SMB downtime cost range from industry analyst data (Pingdom / Atlassian, 2024–2025). Your actual cost depends on revenue, business model, and time of outage.
Five types of checks running 24/7 from multiple locations. Plain English alerts when something breaks. No dashboards to babysit.
HTTP/HTTPS checks every minute from multiple locations. We confirm with 3 consecutive failed checks before alerting you — no false alarms from network blips.
We warn you 30 days before your SSL certificate or domain expires, so you never serve a “Not Secure” warning to a customer mid-purchase.
Confirm that critical text like “Add to Cart”, “Buy Now”, or “Sign Up” is still showing on your pages. Catches silent breakages your uptime monitor would miss.
For the technical side of your stack — APIs, databases, mail servers. Hand this part to your developer; we’ll alert you both.
You shouldn’t need to know what an HTTP status code is to know if your site is working. Here’s the whole onboarding flow.
Add your website. That’s it. No DNS changes, no code to install.
Email, SMS, Slack, Teams, or all four. We’ll let you know the moment something’s wrong.
We test every minute from multiple locations. You only hear from us when it matters.
When your monitor opens an incident, the next question is always: is this affecting everyone, or just my region? PingForce’s Ping feature answers that in seconds. Test your site from 40+ probe locations across 7 cloud providers — North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, and Africa — and see exactly which regions are affected.
It’s the difference between “the site is down” and “the site is down for users on the East Coast US.” One panics your team. The other tells your engineer exactly where to look.
See how our probe network worksEnough headroom to grow into. Priced for a real business, not an enterprise budget.
We caught a regional CDN issue at 3am that our old monitor missed for 6 hours. PingForce saw three probes flip critical from Asia while everything else stayed green. Saved us a refund cycle.
Got a quote from a big enterprise monitoring vendor — $40k a year, six-month rollout, and a sales motion that took weeks. Signed up for Captain in 90 seconds. Same insights, less bureaucracy.
The BYOP feature is huge for us — we test from inside our customer's network as well as the public internet. Nothing else on the market does both. The 3-check rule killed our false-alarm fatigue too.
No. PingForce is 100% cloud-based. You paste your website URL into the dashboard, we handle the rest. There's no software to install on your servers and no code to add to your site.
You pick. We support email, SMS text messages, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and webhooks (for integrations like PagerDuty). Most business owners use email plus SMS. We alert the moment we confirm an outage — usually within 1–3 minutes.
The free Specialist plan gives you 5 monitors at 5-minute check intervals — great for getting started or monitoring a small site. Paid plans get you 1-minute intervals (faster detection), SMS alerts, status pages you can share with customers, and more monitors. Most business owners start with Captain ($15/month) for serious coverage.
Yes. Captain tier and up include public or password-protected status pages. Show your customers real-time uptime and incident history — builds trust and reduces support tickets when something is wrong.
No. We require 3 consecutive failed checks before opening an incident, verified across multiple probe locations. A single network blip from one probe location won't wake you up. We only alert when there's a real problem.
Absolutely. Captain tier includes 1 child account for your developer or ops person. Major tier includes 2, Colonel includes 5. They get their own login with permissions you control (read-only or read/write).
Cancel anytime — no contracts, no calls with sales. Your service stays active for the rest of your current billing cycle, then automatically reverts to our free Specialist tier. You keep your account, your monitor history, and 5 free monitors forever.
Free forever tier. Setup in 5 minutes. No credit card.