The work that keeps you online should never depend on someone remembering.
VigilDog started from a simple, expensive truth: the things that take a website down are almost never dramatic. They are quiet — an expired certificate, a domain nobody renewed, a DNS record that drifted, an email policy that silently broke. We built a watchdog so those things never blindside you or your clients again.
Reliability is the entire promise. Not a dashboard, not another chart — the calm certainty that if something is about to break, you will hear about it in time to fix it. We measure ourselves on one thing: never missing the alert that mattered.
The four silent failures we watch
Each one can take a site or its email offline without a single visible warning. VigilDog checks all four continuously, across every registrar and host you use.
Domain expiry
One missed renewal and the entire site, along with its email, vanishes overnight.
SSL certificate
The padlock expires on a shrinking clock. Lapse it and visitors hit a “Not Secure” wall.
DNS drift
One wrong edit to the address book and the site or the email instantly stops resolving.
Email auth
SPF / DKIM / DMARC drift and your client’s email silently starts landing in spam.
How we think about the work
Three principles behind every alert we send — and every one we deliberately don’t.
Never cry wolf
A false alarm costs trust, and trust is the whole product. Alerts are tuned to fire only when action is genuinely needed — early, clear, and worth opening.
Warn early, not late
Anyone can tell you a site is already down. We exist to tell you days before it happens, while there is still time to quietly fix it.
Make you look good
You should be the proactive expert who caught the problem first. White-label reports and calm, plain-language alerts put your name on the save.
Let VigilDog keep the watch.
Your first domain is monitored free, forever. No card to start — just add a domain and stop checking by hand.