Tethered Team

Here’s something most uptime monitoring companies won’t tell you: the way most tools decide your site is “down” is more fragile than it sounds. We want to walk through why, because understanding it changes how much you should trust a downtime alert, from us or from anyone else. The naive approach: one server, one opinion … Read more

In November 2023, we launched Tethered with a simple idea: every business, no matter how small, deserves to know when their website goes down, without having to pay for the privilege. Almost three years on, that idea has grown into a platform actively monitoring uptime, ports, keywords, and SSL certificates for nearly 2,800 businesses. We … Read more

Uptime monitoring isn’t a new category. There are a lot of solid tools out there, and if you’re evaluating options in 2026, you deserve an honest look at the field, including where we honestly think we rank. Here’s our take on the five tools worth knowing about, starting with our own. 1. Tethered We’re putting … Read more