It did happen to me a couple of times. I was working on several sideprojects and suddenly a friend messaged that one of them was down. Looking into the issue, this must have embarrasingly been the case for a while 😅. And I didn't notice. .... oops....

Currently I'm trying out UptimeRobot.com, backing em up and give me a ping when a site goes down. The paid version allows for monitoring SSL expiry. For me, that's a nice to have, but not a must have. The uptime check will fail when it's expired and alert me.

UptimeRobot affiliate link, but you get 50 site monitors for free.

Do you have other ways to monitor your projects and business? Please share them with me on Twitter or LinkedIn. I'm happy to learn from you.