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Nemanja F.
Nemanja F.

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Why cached website checks are no longer enough 🚨

In the age of AI agents, automated monitoring, and real-time decision systems, infrastructure truth matters more than ever.

Most “is it down?” tools still rely on:

cached DNS records

CDN layers

delayed user reports

That approach produces outdated and sometimes wrong signals — which is unacceptable for systems like:

SEO tools

LLM-powered assistants

automated monitoring & alerting pipelines

🔎 Real-time systems need real-time data.

That’s exactly why we built the IsYourWebsiteDownRightNow API.

Instead of guessing, the API performs live infrastructure-level checks:

HTTP response & status codes

DNS resolution

SSL certificate validation

And returns raw, uncached JSON, ready for direct programmatic use.

⚙️ API at a glance

Public & no authentication

Method: GET

Endpoint:
https://isyourwebsitedownrightnow.com/api/status

Required parameter:
domain=google.com

Example request:
https://isyourwebsitedownrightnow.com/api/status?domain=isyourwebsitedownrightnow.com

🧠 Rate limit:
Free usage — 10 requests per 2 hours per IP (enough for agents, testing, and integrations).

This API was designed specifically for:

AI agents & RAG systems

developer tools

infrastructure monitoring

anything that needs ground truth, not cached assumptions

If you’re building systems that must know, not guess, this might be useful.

👉 Documentation & widget embed:
https://isyourwebsitedownrightnow.com/api-docs.php

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