Website Availability Checker
The WebJi® website availability checker requests your URL from outside your own network and reports the HTTP status, response time and redirect path. It answers one question: is the site up for the world, not just for you. DNS errors point at the registrar; 5xx codes point at the server or application.
For site owners staring at a blank page or an error screen who need to know whether visitors see it too.
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Last editorial update: 15 November 2026.
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| What it checks | What the result means |
|---|---|
| Input | Your URL, requested from WebJi's Indian servers outside your office network and browser cache. |
| Output | HTTP status code, total response time and the redirect path the request followed. |
| Healthy result | A 200-class status with fast response; 5xx codes mean the application fails though the server is reachable. |
| Vs domain check | Website availability is whether the live site answers; domain availability is whether the name is free. |
| Triage | DNS errors point at the registrar; 5xx at the server or app; SSL errors at an expired certificate. |
Live availability check
Live checkThis measures the server's answer from an Indian point of presence. A 200-class status with a fast response is healthy; 5xx codes mean the application is failing even though the server is reachable. Hosting with a 99.9% uptime SLA is on shared hosting plans.
What website availability actually means
Website availability is whether your site answers requests at all — a 200-class response when the world asks for it — and it is a different question from domain availability or speed. Domain availability asks whether a name is free to register (use the domain availability checker for that); speed asks how fast the answer comes (that is the website speed test). A site can be fast and down during an outage, or slow and still available.
Monitoring services compress availability into an uptime percentage. The arithmetic is worth knowing, because two numbers that sound close allow very different amounts of downtime in a month of roughly 30 days:
| Uptime | Downtime allowed per month | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 99.9% | about 43 minutes | The honest shared-hosting benchmark |
| 99.95% | about 22 minutes | Stricter; typical of premium tiers |
| 99.99% | about 4 minutes | "Four nines"; needs redundancy to be credible |
WebJi® hosting plans publish a 99.9% uptime target measured monthly. Judge any host on measured uptime and a public status history, not on the headline — the uptime guide explains how the counting works.
How to read the result: status codes and response time
Read the status code first: 200–299 means the site answered, 5xx means the server is reachable but the application behind it is failing. Response time comes second — it tells you how quickly the server produced that answer, not how fast the full page loads in a browser, which the speed test measures.
| Result | Meaning | First move |
|---|---|---|
| 200–299 | Success — the server returned the page | Note the response time; you are up |
| 301 / 302 redirect | Server answered and forwarded the request | Check the redirect path ends at a 200, usually https |
| 403 / 404 | Server is up; that path is forbidden or missing | Fix the URL, permissions or the link that sent traffic |
| 5xx | Application crashed or is overloaded | Server-side fix; send the code and time to support |
| DNS error | The name does not resolve | Check nameservers and DNS records at the registrar |
| SSL error | Certificate expired or mismatched | Renew or reissue the certificate |
What this checker can and cannot tell you
This checker performs one real request from an Indian point of presence, outside your network and browser cache — it proves what a visitor's request sees, not what your own laptop sees. That vantage is its value: firewall rules blocking outsiders, expired certificates and crashed PHP processes all show up here even when the site opens fine for you.
- It cannot monitor continuously — it is a single check on demand, not an alerting service.
- It sees one vantage point — a regional network problem between some visitors and the server can be invisible from India.
- It does not render the page — a 200 with a broken layout still reports as available; the speed test and a real browser catch that.
- Its response time is server answer time — full page weight, images and scripts are the speed test's job.
For checks every few minutes with an email when the site goes down, set up an uptime monitor — the uptime monitoring guide walks through it. A related failure mode is mail: if deliverability dropped alongside an outage, run the spam blacklist checker too.
Your site is down: what to do next
Triage by what the checker returned: DNS errors go to the registrar, 5xx codes to the server or application, SSL errors to the certificate. Work in that order, because each fix is owned by a different layer, and guessing the wrong layer wastes the outage window.
- DNS error: verify the nameservers and A record at the registrar; recent DNS changes propagate over minutes to hours.
- 5xx code: the server is reachable but the app is not serving — check recent deploys and error logs, or send the exact code and time to support.
- SSL error: renew the expired certificate or reissue it for the current hostname, then re-run the check.
- Checker says up but your screen disagrees: the fault is your connection, browser cache or local DNS — reload with cache bypassed.
WebJi® hosting customers can email support@webji.services 24/7 in Hindi or English with the status code and timestamp; the published average first reply is under 60 minutes. If outages recur, moving to a plan with more headroom — see shared hosting plans — or adding the SSL checker to your routine are the practical next steps.
Frequently asked questions
Is my website down, or is it just me?
Run this checker: it requests the site from outside your network. If it answers 200 here, the site is up for the world and the problem sits in your connection, browser cache or local DNS. If it fails here too, the outage is real.
What does a 502 or 503 result mean for availability?
Both mean the server answered but the application behind it failed or is overloaded — visitors get an error page, so the site is effectively down even though the machine is reachable. Check error logs and recent deploys, or send the code and time to support.
How is website availability different from domain availability?
Domain availability is whether a name is free to register; website availability is whether a live site answers requests. This checker answers the second question on the URL you enter. To test whether a name is still free, use the domain availability checker instead.
What uptime percentage should I expect from a host?
A 99.9% target — about 43 minutes of allowed downtime in a 30-day month — is the honest benchmark for shared hosting. Judge hosts on measured uptime with a public status history rather than the SLA headline; the SLA defines compensation, the measurement defines reality.
Does a fast response time here mean my site is fast?
Not on its own. This response time is how quickly the server produced an answer for one request. Full perceived speed also depends on page weight, images, scripts and caching — measure that with the website speed test, which loads the page the way a browser does.
Last editorial update: 15 November 2026.
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