Keep your donation page online when supporters arrive
A charity's website is where appeals, events and donations land. When a campaign email goes out and the donation page is down, the moment — and the money — is lost.
Why this matters for nonprofits & charities
Nonprofits usually run lean: a volunteer or part-time web person, a plan on shared hosting and a donation tool on someone else's server. Traffic is lumpy — quiet for weeks, then a flood after a newsletter or a news story — which is exactly when under-powered sites fail. And because nobody is watching, the first alert is often a supporter's email.
What to monitor
- Your donation page — monitor it separately from the homepage, since it often lives on a different provider.
- The event or volunteer signup page you promote in campaigns.
- Your domain registration — charities often rely on a renewal that a former volunteer set up.
- Your SSL certificate, because donors are right to leave a page that shows a security warning.
How OwlHound helps
- 5-minute checks, confirmed before alerts — failures are retried and confirmed, so every email is real. How uptime monitoring works.
- SSL and domain expiry warnings well before anything lapses. Learn more.
- A weekly report with uptime, outages and response times, and optional Slack or Discord alerts.
Before a campaign
Add monitors a week before a big appeal, glance at the weekly report for slow response times, and schedule a maintenance window if you are making last-minute changes. Alerts can go to a shared inbox so more than one person sees them. Note that some nonprofits are better served by free tools; our comparisons say where those fit.
Frequently asked questions
Do you offer nonprofit pricing?
Not at the moment. Plans are the same for everyone, and the 7-day trial lets you try it before committing. Several services have free plans aimed at non-profits, which our comparison pages mention.
Can you monitor my donation page if it's hosted by a payment provider?
Yes, if it has a public address. We confirm the page loads; we never see donations or donor details.
Who should get the alerts?
A shared inbox works well, so alerts don't depend on one person. You can also add a Slack or Discord channel.
Start watching your site in minutes
7-day trial. No installs and no passwords — we only check public pages.