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    How do I monitor a website for free?

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    How do I monitor a website for free?

    Sign up for a free monitoring service like Lemwatch, paste your site's URL, and it will ping the page every 5 minutes from multiple regions and alert you by email when it goes down — no credit card required.

    • Lemwatch's free plan covers 5 websites with 5-minute checks and email alerts.
    • Uptime checks require two consecutive failures before alerting, cutting false positives.
    • Free tier includes SSL expiry, DNS, broken-link and visual-change monitoring.
    • Upgrade only when you need 1-minute checks, SMS/Slack routing, or more than 5 sites.

    Step-by-step

    1. 1
      Create an account

      Sign up with Google or email at lemwatch.com — no card.

    2. 2
      Add your website

      Click Add site and paste the full URL (https://example.com).

    3. 3
      Pick a check interval

      Start at 5 minutes; drop to 1 minute on paid plans.

    4. 4
      Confirm your alert email

      Open the verification email and confirm the address.

    5. 5
      Watch the first check

      Within 2 minutes the dashboard shows uptime, SSL and health score.

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    Monitor 5 websites, get email alerts, SSL and visual checks — no card required.

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