Keep your menu, bookings and online orders reachable
Your website is the first thing a hungry customer opens — for the menu, the opening hours or the booking button. If it's down on a Friday night, they go to the next restaurant on the list.
Why this matters for restaurants & cafés
Most restaurant websites are built once and then forgotten, which is exactly why problems last. A lapsed domain, an expired certificate with a scary browser warning, a booking widget page that errors — nobody in a busy kitchen is checking. The first sign is usually a customer saying they couldn't book online.
What to monitor
- Your homepage — the page Google Maps and social profiles send people to.
- The menu page and, separately, your online ordering or reservation page.
- Your domain registration, because an expired domain also stops any email on it.
- Your SSL certificate — an expired one makes browsers warn people away from the site.
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.
Set it up once
Add two or three addresses, connect your email (and Slack, if you use it), and forget about it. You'll hear from OwlHound only when a problem is confirmed — and the weekly report is a one-minute read.
Frequently asked questions
Can you monitor my third-party ordering page?
Yes, as long as it has a public address. We'll tell you if that page stops responding, even if the provider hosts it.
I don't have a developer. Who fixes it?
OwlHound tells you what failed and when, which is what you need to call your host, web designer or ordering provider.
Is it complicated to set up?
No. Paste your website address and your email; checks start within minutes.
Start watching your site in minutes
7-day trial. No installs and no passwords — we only check public pages.