How To Monitor Your Websites With Uptime Kuma on Hosting Australia VPS
Website uptime is one of the most important parts of running a modern business. Even short outages can impact sales, search rankings, and customer trust. The simplest way to stay ahead of downtime is by using a dedicated monitoring system.
Uptime Kuma is a powerful uptime monitoring tool that can be deployed instantly on a Hosting Australia server through our one click app system. It gives you real time alerts, easy to read dashboards, and full visibility over the health of your websites and services.
This guide explains what Uptime Kuma does, why we recommend it, and how you can start using it with a single click.
What Is Uptime Kuma
Uptime Kuma is a self hosted uptime and monitoring platform. It checks your websites and services on a set interval and alerts you immediately if something goes offline.
It supports:
- HTTP and HTTPS monitoring
- ICMP ping checks
- DNS checks
- TCP port monitoring
- SSL expiry alerts
- Cron job and heartbeat monitoring
- Public status pages
- Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, and Webhook notifications
It is clean, lightweight, reliable, and perfectly suited for Hosting Australia’s infrastructure.
Why Use Uptime Kuma With Hosting Australia
Many website owners only discover their site is offline when customers report it. Uptime Kuma prevents that by giving you instant alerts.
Advantages include:
Instant notifications
Get notified the moment your site or service stops responding.
100 percent self hosted
Your monitoring runs inside your Hosting Australia environment. No third party tracking and no usage fees.
Accurate local checks
Because it runs on an Australian server, your uptime monitoring reflects actual performance for Australian visitors.
Covers all important services
Monitor websites, email ports, WHM, cPanel, databases, APIs, and scheduled tasks.
Great for agencies and developers
Create public status pages for client reporting and service visibility.
How To Deploy Uptime Kuma With One Click
Hosting Australia provides an instant deployment option for Uptime Kuma. There is no need for manual installation, Docker setup, or command line work.
Steps to deploy:
- Log in to your Hosting Australia server panel
- Select the option to deploy a new application
- Choose Uptime Kuma from the one click apps list
- Select your server plan or deploy to an existing server
- Launch the app
Your server will automatically configure and install Uptime Kuma for you.
Once complete, you can access the dashboard through the URL provided in your control panel. Set your admin account and begin adding monitors.
That is all that is required.
What You Should Monitor First
Here are the most important monitors to set up straight away.
1. Your website uptime
Use an HTTPS check with a 30 to 60 second interval.
2. SSL certificate expiry
Never let a certificate lapse without warning.
3. Email services
Monitor IMAP, POP, and SMTP ports to ensure mailboxes stay reachable.
4. cPanel and WHM
Monitor ports like:
- 2083 (cPanel)
- 2087 (WHM)
- 443 (HTTPS)
- 53 (DNS)
- 22 (SSH)
5. Databases
Add TCP monitoring for MySQL or MariaDB.
6. Cron jobs
Use heartbeat mode to confirm your scheduled tasks continue to run.
Why Hosting Australia Recommends Uptime Kuma
We support thousands of Australian businesses and one of the most common issues we see is downtime going unnoticed. Uptime Kuma solves this by giving you real time visibility with no reliance on external services.
Using Hosting Australia’s one click deployment gives you:
- Fast setup
- Full control of data
- Accurate local uptime checks
- No third party subscriptions
- A reliable and simple uptime solution
It is ideal for web developers, e commerce stores, agencies, and businesses that depend on consistent website performance.
Need Our Team To Set It Up
If you prefer, our support team can deploy and configure Uptime Kuma for you. Just open a support ticket and we will assist.
