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Add your domain
After signup, add a public website. Siteavail starts a browser-based backup and saves the result on infrastructure separate from your host.
A new kind of backup
Siteavail is a standby copy of your website, not a traditional backup.
Traditional backups help your team rebuild after something breaks. Siteavail helps visitors see your website while that repair is happening.
We back up the public version of your site, store it as a browsable web archive, and prepare a failover endpoint you can point your domain to during an emergency.
A real-browser capture
Pages are visited the way a visitor's browser sees them, including modern front-end rendering and assets.
A dated archive history
Each backup is browsable, timestamped, and retained according to the schedule you choose.
A DNS-ready failover copy
When your primary host is unavailable, point DNS at Siteavail and serve the latest backup on your domain.
How it works
From first backup to outage response.
No plugin. No agent. No hosting migration.
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Preview the backup
Open the archive like a normal website. Check key pages, assets, navigation, and the failover preview.
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Switch DNS during an outage
If your host goes down, update DNS to the Siteavail failover servers. Visitors see the latest archived copy while your host fixes the issue.
Normal day
Scheduled backup
Archive stored
Preview checked
Outage day
Host fails
Change DNS
Visitors see backup
Failover target
Ready before the incident
SSL
Automatic during failover
Rollback
Point DNS back to your host
Why it is different
Test your failover before the outage, not during it.
Every Siteavail backup can be opened and reviewed before you rely on it. That makes the failover copy a known asset, not a promise hidden behind a disaster recovery checklist.
- Validate important pages after every backup.
- Keep backup infrastructure outside your host's blast radius.
- Use DNS to activate failover only when you choose.
What is included
Practical continuity for public websites.
A standby copy of your live site, ready to serve on your own domain.
Browser-based website backups
Capture public pages, images, stylesheets, scripts, and rendered front-end states with a real browser.
Archive history
Browse previous versions of your site for reference, change review, compliance questions, or customer disputes.
Independent storage and serving
Backups live away from your web host so hosting outages, failed deploys, and broken plugins do not take the copy down too.
DNS failover guidance
Get the records and instructions needed to route your domain to the archived copy when you activate failover.
Email notifications
Know when backups complete, when archives fail, and when failover infrastructure needs attention.
API access
Manage sites, jobs, archives, and failover workflows from your own tooling when you need automation.
Best fit
Built for sites you cannot afford to have offline.
Siteavail matters most when going offline has real consequences like lost sales, customers who cannot reach you, or the public cut off from information they rely on.
Commerce and product sites
Keep product information, pricing, support links, and brand pages visible during hosting incidents.
Agencies and managed clients
Give clients a tested emergency option before migrations, launch weekends, and provider outages.
Public institutions
Maintain access to public information and preserve an archive trail for official website changes.
Campaign and content teams
Protect high-traffic launches, donor pages, event sites, and public announcements from blank-page failures.
What visitors can still do during failover
- Read pages and navigation captured in the latest backup.
- View images, styles, front-end content, and public documents.
- Find phone numbers, support links, store locations, product details, and service information.
What failover is not meant to replace
- Server-side checkout, logins, account portals, or database writes.
- A permanent hosting platform, CDN, or second production application stack.
- Content that requires forms, search boxes, private sessions, or unlinked pages to discover.
Pricing
One straightforward plan.
Start with a 14-day free trial. Add your site, review the first backup, and decide whether the standby copy belongs in your continuity plan.
Failover is for temporary emergency use while your primary hosting is unavailable.
Site continuity plan
$199/month per site
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- 14-day free trial, no credit card required
- 2 TB archive storage included per site
- Daily, weekly, or monthly backups
- Browsable archive history and failover preview
- DNS failover with automatic SSL
- Email notifications and REST API access
See the failover terms and fair use policy for emergency serving limits.
FAQ
Questions visitors often ask first.
Siteavail is not hosting, not a CDN, and not a plain backup: it's a tested online copy of your website, ready for emergency use.
Siteavail backs up the public pages of your website and stores the front-end assets needed to replay those pages later: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, public documents, and related static resources.
No. A server backup helps you restore files and databases. Siteavail creates a visitor-facing archive that can be served while your team restores the primary system.
Dynamic server-side actions such as checkout, account login, database-backed search, and form submission are not replicated. Failover is meant to keep public information visible, not replace your application.
No. Backups run without changing DNS. You only update DNS when you choose to activate failover, and Siteavail provides the failover target and guidance.
The archived copy is ready on Siteavail's side. The visible switch depends mainly on your DNS provider, TTL settings, and propagation after you update records.
Point DNS back to your primary host. Your Siteavail archive remains available for review, future backups, and future incidents.
Try it on your site
Get a backup you can actually open before anything goes wrong.
Start your 14-day free trial and see your website's online backup.
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