Classic uptime monitoring asks one question: did the server respond? WordPress has a special talent for answering “yes” while being completely broken. The white screen of death returns 200 OK. So does the “There has been a critical error on this website” page. So does maintenance mode.
Formitor’s uptime monitoring reads the page, not just the status code.
What shipped
Content-aware uptime. Every site is checked about every 10 minutes. A page that loads but shows a white screen, a WordPress critical error, or a maintenance screen counts as down. A 200 OK that’s really broken won’t fool it.
Fast confirmation, no false alarms. When a site goes down, it’s confirmed within about a minute, and recovery is caught just as quickly. You get one alert on the change of state, not a page of noise from a momentary blip.
SSL expiry tracking. Formitor watches each site’s certificate and warns you at 30, 14, 7 and 1 day before expiry, and immediately if a certificate is already invalid. Expired SSL is the most preventable outage there is; now it’s actually prevented.
Both uptime and SSL status show on your dashboard and on the status pages you share with clients.
Where it fits
Uptime is the floor, not the product. The forms and checkouts are still verified end to end, all the way to a real inbox. But when a site does go down, you should hear it from your monitoring, not from the client, and now the definition of “down” matches what a visitor actually sees.