About Siteavail

Why we built Siteavail

Websites go down for many reasons: A plugin update breaks a page. A deploy ships with a missing stylesheet. A certificate fails to renew over the weekend, or a host has a bad afternoon. The fix eventually arrives, but while it's being sorted out, visitors see a broken page.

The usual backup tools handle a different problem. While they help you rebuild after disaster strikes, they do nothing for the visitor looking at a broken page right now. None of them answer the simple question in the moment: how do we keep the public site up while we fix the issue?

Siteavail is the answer we wanted but couldn't find. It's not a replacement for your host or your backups, but rather a way to keep your website running while they do their job. Read more about how it works.

The Founder - Michael Naber

I've spent more than a decade in web infrastructure, cloud architecture, and systems engineering. In that work, I found well-run teams often had no straightforward way to keep their websites visible during an outage. So I built one, drawing on what I'd learned about cloud platforms, CDN architecture, DNS failover, and web archival. You can reach me at [email protected].