How Can I Check My Website Using a Remote Check-in?

Check-in to your website remotely from any location.

Accessing and monitoring your website from a remote location needn't be a complicated, time-consuming process. Thanks to the aid of software platforms available online for web developers (from the expert to the novice), you can conveniently check the status and functionality of your website as often as you'd like from anywhere and at any time from any Wi-Fi-enabled device. Through your website monitoring platform, you can also generate for your records regular activity reports of your website by your website monitoring platform.

Things You'll Need

• Computer (Mac or PC), laptop or mobile phone with Wi-Fi
• Remote website monitoring plan

Instructions

1. Choose a remote website monitoring platform. These platforms vary in basic services and prices from the more robust services such as AlertSite, Keynote and WebsitePulse, to the basic free platforms like Site24x7 and ServerMojo. Many paid website monitoring services offer free 30-day trials.

2. Register with the remote website monitoring platform you have chosen. Many website monitoring platforms will send an email confirmation of your registration. Confirm and activate your registration by clicking the link in the email you receive.

3. Return to the remote monitoring website and log in to your new account. Create a profile for the websites you would like to monitor and access remotely through your account dashboard or file manager. Run a live test to ensure that your website monitoring platform connects to your website server properly. This test, standard on all remote monitoring platforms, takes just a few seconds.

4. Log in to your remote website monitoring platform on any Wi-Fi-enabled computer or mobile device. Access your account dashboard or file manager. Click your hyperlinked website to view the status of your website and a report on its functionality.

Tips & Warnings

• Backup your website's database before giving a third-party platform access to your website's data and analytics so that you will have an accurate snapshot of your site before using the new service.