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SiteGuardian for GoDaddy sites. Watch what GoDaddy does not always tell you.

GoDaddy hosts a lot of small sites. The GoDaddy dashboard tells you about renewals and DNS fine print; it does not tell you the moment the storefront stops answering. SiteGuardian probes from outside, every minute, and emails you the second the URL goes down.

  • Probe your GoDaddy-hosted URL list every minute.
  • Works on GoDaddy Web Hosting, Managed WordPress, and Websites + Marketing.
  • No agent, no plugin, no DNS edit on the domain. Watch runs from outside.
  • SSL cert expiry alerts on every plan. GoDaddy’s auto-renew fails silently.
  • Quiet inbox: one email per outage, recovery email per come-back.

What you get

What you actually get on GoDaddy.

Six concrete platform-specific things, in plain English. The boring safeguard reads the same on every site; the path to it does not.

  1. No GoDaddy hookup required

    SiteGuardian pings the URL a visitor would type. There is no GoDaddy Marketplace app, no OAuth grant, no DNS edit, and no shared admin scope to grant.

  2. Watches the GoDaddy-hosted URLs that matter

    Add the custom domain (https://www.example.com), the /contact page, the post URL that sends search traffic, and the /shop URL if you have one. SiteGuardian probes each independently.

  3. Custom slow thresholds per URL

    Tight 1.5-second slow thresholds on /contact and /shop; slightly looser on /blog. SiteGuardian treats each URL independently and trips the right alert.

  4. SSL certificate expiry watcher

    GoDaddy auto-renews certs; the renewals fail silently. SiteGuardian pings the cert path daily and emails you at 90 / 30 / 7 / 1 days out from expiry.

  5. Multi-region minutely probing

    GoDaddy sites sit on GoDaddy’s CDN. SiteGuardian probes from multiple regions so a single-region CDN blip does not falsely trip the alert.

  6. Quiet inbox by default

    One loud email per outage, one recovery email per come-back. No daily digest, no AI insight, no second inbox to maintain.

How it works

Setup, in three beats.

  1. Step 01

    Add your GoDaddy-hosted URL

    Paste the home page URL visitors type in the address bar. Set a slow threshold in plain English. SiteGuardian starts probing inside the next minute.

  2. Step 02

    Add the URLs worth watching

    The home page is rarely the only page. Add /contact, /blog, /shop, and any /landing-page URL that sends campaign traffic. SiteGuardian probes each one independently.

  3. Step 03

    Catch the renewal or migration failure before GoDaddy does

    Most silent GoDaddy failures come from a renewal that quietly lapsed or a migration that left DNS pointing at an empty origin. The minute-cadence probe catches it the day it happens, well before GoDaddy’s billing emails.

What the alert actually says

One email. One URL. One timestamp.

Your URL https://www.example.com answered with HTTP 502 at 14:38 UTC. The probe will retry in 60 seconds.
GoDaddy alert · SiteGuardian default

Frequently asked

The GoDaddy-specific questions.

Frequently asked

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Try it

Watch your GoDaddy site while you do other things.

Starter is $19 a month. One site, ten URLs, every-five-minute checks. Pro is $39 a month. Three sites, fifty URLs, every-minute checks. Lifetime is $299 paid once and stays yours with every future update included.

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