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Pausing a site
Stop checking a site for a while without losing anything.
Overview
Sometimes you don't want DomainDash watching a site right now. Maybe it's a staging environment that's being torn down, a client site that's mid-migration, or a project that's on hold. Pausing a site switches all of its checks off — uptime, SSL, DNS, and domain registration — so you won't get alerts you don't need, while keeping the site and all of its history safe for when you come back.
A paused site is neither Healthy nor Needs attention. It's Paused: a separate, neutral state. It won't be checked, so it can't raise incidents or send alerts while it's paused.
Pausing is available on every plan.
How to pause a site
You pause a site from its detail page:
- Open the site you want to pause.
- Open the three-dot menu in the site's toolbar (the Site options menu).
- Choose Pause checks.
The site's status badge switches to Paused, and checks stop straight away.
How to resume a site
Resuming follows the same path:
- Open the paused site.
- Open the three-dot menu.
- Choose Resume checks.
Checks switch back on and the site returns to being actively checked.
Only owners and admins see the pause and resume controls — they're part of the same site-management permission that governs editing and removing sites.
Resuming respects your plan limit
Pausing a site frees it from your plan's site limit while it's paused. That means resuming has to check the limit again before switching the site back on.
If you've already got as many live (un-paused) sites as your plan allows, resuming is blocked, and you'll see a message explaining why. For example, a team already running as many live sites as its plan allows can't resume another until it pauses one or upgrades.
Plans that allow extra sites aren't blocked this way: resuming an extra site is allowed, and the overage is simply added to your bill. See Extra sites for how that works, and Plans and pricing to compare site limits across plans.
Pausing keeps everything
Pausing never deletes a site. Its settings, groups, and check history all stay put. If you want to remove a site for good instead, use Remove site from the same three-dot menu — see Adding and removing sites.
Pausing you didn't ask for
DomainDash can also pause checks automatically if a team goes quiet for a long stretch. This is a separate mechanism from pausing a site by hand, and it comes with plenty of email warning first. See Inactivity and paused checks for the full story.
Related
- Filtering your dashboard to find paused sites quickly with the Paused pill
- Restarting checks to re-run a site's checks on demand
- Adding and removing sites to delete a site instead of pausing it
- Inactivity and paused checks for automatic pausing after long inactivity
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Last updated: 18 June 2026