Restarting checks

Give a site a fresh round of checks without waiting.

Overview

DomainDash checks your sites on a schedule, so most of the time you don't need to do anything — the next round comes along by itself. But occasionally you want a check to run now: a site failed its very first setup checks, or you've just fixed something and you'd rather see it go green straight away than sit wondering whether it worked.

Restarting checks re-runs all four of a site's checks immediately:

• Uptime — is the site responding?
• SSL certificate — is the certificate valid?
• DNS — is the domain resolving?
• Domain registration — is the domain still registered and in good standing?

It also switches the site's checks back on if they were paused, so a restart always leaves the site being actively checked.

Restarting checks is available on every plan.

When you'd restart checks

The most common reason is a setup failure. When you add a site, DomainDash runs an initial round of checks. If those can't complete — say the domain wasn't reachable yet, or there was a typo in the address — the site lands in a setup-failed state instead of going live. Once you've sorted out whatever was wrong, restarting checks tells DomainDash to try again.

It's also useful any time you've made a change on your side — renewed a certificate, fixed a DNS record, sorted out a domain renewal — and you want confirmation straight away rather than at the next scheduled check.

Saving settings restarts checks automatically

If a site is in a setup-failed state, you usually don't need to restart checks by hand at all. Just fix the problem and save the site's settings — saving a setup-failed site automatically kicks off a fresh round of checks. You'll see a confirmation that DomainDash is checking the site again, and it returns to the normal flow once the checks come back.

This means the typical fix for a failed setup is simply: correct the site's settings, save, and let DomainDash take it from there.

The confirmation

When checks restart, DomainDash confirms with a short message — "Checks restarted. We'll update you shortly." The site moves back to a pending state while the fresh checks run, then settles into its real status as each check reports back. There's nothing else to do; the results land on the site's detail page as they arrive.

Related

• Pausing a site to switch a site's checks off and on
• Site settings for the settings that, when saved, restart a setup-failed site
• Adding and removing sites for what happens when you first add a site
• How incidents work for how checks turn into incidents