Protect the website — and the email address — your firm is known by
For a professional firm, the website is a signed letter of credibility. A browser warning or an outage tells a prospective client something about your attention to detail before you've spoken.
Why this matters for law, accounting & consulting firms
Smaller firms often use one domain for both the website and every partner's email. If the domain registration lapses or DNS breaks, the website and email stop together — and clients who write or call about a deadline hear nothing. These failures are rare, but they are slow to notice and embarrassing to explain.
What to monitor
- The homepage and the contact page prospects use to reach you.
- Any client portal login page — we check that the public page loads, never the portal itself.
- Domain registration expiry, protecting both website and email.
- SSL certificate expiry on the site and any portal subdomain.
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.
OwlHound requests public pages only. We never log in, never see client data, and don't need any access to your systems.
Frequently asked questions
Does a lapsed domain really affect email?
Yes. If the domain registration expires or DNS stops working, email addressed to that domain typically stops being delivered along with the website.
Can you monitor a client portal?
We can confirm its public login page loads. We never log in or access anything behind it.
Who should receive the alerts?
Anyone responsible — an office manager, your IT provider or a partner. You can set one email address and add a Slack or Discord webhook.
Start watching your site in minutes
7-day trial. No installs and no passwords — we only check public pages.