Keep enrolment, timetables and parent pages reachable
Term dates, enrolment deadlines and results days drive sudden surges of traffic. A site that's down on the one day everyone needs it is a day of phone calls to the office.
Why this matters for schools, tutors & training providers
Education sites are often maintained by one busy person, hosted cheaply and updated in bursts around term time. Deadlines are fixed, so an outage on enrolment closing day or results day has outsized consequences, and parents don't distinguish between 'the school site' and 'the portal'.
What to monitor
- The homepage and the admissions or enrolment page.
- The public login page of your parent or student portal — we check that it loads, never what's behind it.
- The timetable, term-dates and notices pages.
- Domain and SSL expiry, which matter extra when email addresses run on the same domain.
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 checks public pages only. We never log in to a portal and never see student or parent data.
Frequently asked questions
Can you monitor a parent portal?
We can check that its public login page loads. We never log in or access anything behind it.
What about deadline days?
Set up monitors in advance so you have a baseline, and schedule a maintenance window for any planned changes so they aren't counted as outages.
Who gets alerted?
Any email address — an IT lead, an office manager — and optionally a Slack or Discord channel.
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