Ohdear

Ohdear is a website monitoring service built for the moment you dread most: a client emailing to say the site is down, hours after it went down. It watches your sites and tells you when something breaks, so the news reaches you first. For anyone shipping and maintaining web projects, that shift from reactive to informed is the whole point.

What stands out in this Ohdear review is the framing. It is a development tool made by people who clearly run production sites themselves, aimed at agencies, freelancers, and small teams responsible for other people's uptime. If you maintain a handful of client projects and currently rely on luck or a manual check, this fills an obvious and uncomfortable gap in your workflow.

Worth trying if downtime alerts are currently something you handle by hoping. Monitoring is one of those things that feels optional until the day it very much is not, and getting it set up takes far less time than one apologetic client phone call. Sign up, point it at your sites, and go back to building things instead of refreshing them.