Name: SiteGuardian
Brand: SiteGuardian
Price: 19 USD
Availability: InStock

Question 1

Does SiteGuardian have a free tier like UptimeRobot?

Accepted Answer

No. SiteGuardian is paid from the first URL. Starter is $19 a month, Pro is $39 a month, Lifetime is $299 once. UptimeRobot still runs a free tier (around fifty monitors on a 5-minute cadence as of July 2026). Choose SiteGuardian when you want the smallest tool and one alert; choose UptimeRobot when the free plan is the deciding factor.

Question 2

Is the probe cadence the same as UptimeRobot?

Accepted Answer

On UptimeRobot paid, both probe every minute. On UptimeRobot Free the cadence is five minutes, averaging around two-and-a-half minutes detection latency. SiteGuardian probes every minute on Pro and every five minutes on Starter and Lifetime. No free-tier downgrade in cadence.

Question 3

Does SiteGuardian support a public status page like UptimeRobot?

Accepted Answer

No. SiteGuardian is intentionally the smallest product; status pages are something you would pair alongside it, not a feature we ship. If a public status page is a buying-time requirement, UptimeRobot’s free status page is the better fit.

Question 4

Can I keep using UptimeRobot’s free tier while I try SiteGuardian?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Run both for a fortnight. The second alert is louder than the first. Pick the one that fits the way you want to be notified.

Question 5

Which one is cheaper for one storefront?

Accepted Answer

UptimeRobot Free is cheaper at $0. SiteGuardian Starter at $19/mo is cheaper than UptimeRobot Solo across twelve months of paid use. And it ships tighter cadence than the Free tier.

Question 6

Does SiteGuardian monitor SSL expiry like UptimeRobot's paid plans?

Accepted Answer

Yes. SiteGuardian ships SSL expiry monitoring on every paid plan, included — no add-on. UptimeRobot only ships SSL expiry alerts on paid Solo and up; the Free tier does not. If SSL renewal is part of what you expect the watch to do, both are honest picks at parity on the paid tier; SiteGuardian gives it to you from the first URL, UptimeRobot at the Solo tier and above.

Question 7

Does SiteGuardian crawl my site for broken links like Oh Dear?

Accepted Answer

Partially, and in a different way. SiteGuardian does not ship a full site crawler — neither does UptimeRobot. SiteGuardian does watch the URL list you configured during setup and re-probes it for broken links on the same cadence; if a page begins returning 4xx or 5xx, you get the alert in the same inbox as an outage. Oh Dear ships a deeper crawler that follows links off the list; that is where they still lead. Pick SiteGuardian if your URLs are already known and you want link breakage caught in the same loud email. Pick Oh Dear if you want discovery across every internal link.

Question 8

Can SiteGuardian tell me when my checkout breaks?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Configure your checkout URL on SiteGuardian and a separate probe runs against it on the same cadence as your uptime checks. If it goes slow or starts returning errors, you get the alert in the same inbox. UptimeRobot is strictly an HTTP-ping product — it will tell you when your checkout URL goes 5xx, and that is all. It will not flag a checkout that is slow but technically up, and it will not run a checkout-specific path probe.

Question 9

Can SiteGuardian watch my contact form and report it when it stops sending?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Add the form URL as a probe or wire a heartbeat monitor, and SiteGuardian pings it on the same cadence as your other URLs. If it stops returning 2xx, you get the alert in the same inbox. UptimeRobot does the same on the HTTP layer — but for a contact form, what matters is whether the submission reaches your inbox, not whether the form page itself returns 200. SiteGuardian lets you set a form-path probe and a heartbeat for the destination; UptimeRobot will only tell you that the page itself is up.

Feature	SiteGuardian	Competitor
Probe cadence (paid)	Every minute	Every minute
Probe cadence (free tier)		Every 5 minutes
Alert destination	One inbox	Email, SMS, Slack, webhooks
Public status page
Custom slow threshold per URL		Global only
Maintenance windows	Pause via dashboard	Built-in scheduler
Free tier		Up to 50 monitors on Free
Pricing model (paid)	$19/mo Starter, $39/mo Pro, $299 once Lifetime	Free; Solo ~$9/mo; Team ~$33/mo annual
AI-powered root cause	Not yet available	Not yet available
SSL expiry alerts		On paid Solo and up
Broken-link coverage	Watches your configured URL list
Checkout-failure monitoring
Form-failure monitoring

Tier	Price	What you get
SiteGuardianSiteGuardian Starter	$19/month	1 site, 10 URLs, every-5-min probes
SiteGuardianSiteGuardian Pro	$39/month	3 sites, 50 URLs, every-1-min probes
SiteGuardianSiteGuardian Lifetime	$299 once	1 site, 50 URLs, every-5-min probes, all future updates included
CompetitorUptimeRobot Free	$0/month	Up to 50 monitors, 5-minute probe cadence
CompetitorUptimeRobot Solo	~$9/month (annual)	1-minute cadence, SMS alerts, 1 status page
CompetitorUptimeRobot Team	~$33/month (annual)	Most-popular plan; SMS, Slack, multi-user alerts
CompetitorUptimeRobot Enterprise	~$69/month (annual)	Higher monitor caps, team roles, audit logs

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