Site settings

Customise how DomainDash checks each of your sites.

Overview

Every site you add to DomainDash comes with sensible defaults, so it works the moment you add it. When you want to fine-tune things to match how your site actually works, the settings are right here. They're organised into tabs, each covering a different aspect of how DomainDash checks your site.

Getting to site settings

To reach settings for a specific site, open the site detail page, click the three-dot menu in the toolbar and select Settings.

Once you're in settings, the breadcrumb at the top links back to the site and your list of sites.

Settings tabs

Site settings are split across two tabs: General and Uptime. Each tab has its own save button, so you can update one area without affecting the others.

General

The General tab is titled What we check. It controls which types of check DomainDash runs for this site. Each one is a card you can turn on or off:

Check	What it does
Uptime and speed	Checks whether your site is online and loading quickly
Security certificate	Warns you before your SSL certificate expires
Domain routing	Checks that visitors can find your site
Domain registration	Warns you before your domain name expires

Each one can be turned on or off independently. If you turn off uptime checks, the other check types keep running. To stop everything at once, use the Pause checks option from the site detail page's three-dot menu instead.

Pausing vs. turning off

Pausing (from the site menu) switches off every check in one go and shows the site as "Paused" on your dashboard. Turning off individual checks here lets you keep some running while disabling others. This is useful if, for example, you manage DNS elsewhere and don't need DomainDash to check it.

Uptime

The Uptime tab controls how, where, and how often DomainDash checks your site's availability.

Path

By default, DomainDash checks your homepage (/). If you have a dedicated health check endpoint or a specific page you care about, set the path here. The full URL is previewed below the input so you can double-check it.

Expected response

DomainDash expects your site to return a 200 OK status code by default. If the page you're checking is supposed to redirect (like a login page that sends you somewhere else), change this to the expected code, for example 301 or 302. That way DomainDash only alerts you when something's genuinely wrong, not when your site is behaving exactly as it should.

HTTP method

DomainDash checks your site with a GET request. This is the only method available right now.

Frequency

Choose how often DomainDash checks your site. This is the main lever for how quickly you hear about a problem: more frequent checks mean you catch an outage sooner, while less frequent checks are perfectly fine for sites that don't change often.

How often you can check depends on your plan: the free plan checks less often, while paid plans let you check most frequently. See Plans and pricing for the exact figure on each plan.

Content check

Plan availability

Content checks is available on Pro and Business. See the plan comparison.

A 200 OK response doesn't always mean the page is right. A content check lets you confirm the page actually contains what it should. You can check that the page contains a piece of text, that an element matching a CSS selector is present, or that the JSON response contains certain keys and values. DomainDash checks the HTML your server returns, before any JavaScript runs — and the page content never leaves the checker.

If your plan doesn't include content checks, this card shows a link to view plans instead. See Content checks for the full detail.

Check locations

Pick where DomainDash checks your site from:

• Primary location is the location closest to most of your visitors. This is where the majority of your checks run.
• Secondary location is an optional second place to check from, for comparison. If your site is slower from one location, you'll see it clearly on the response time chart.

The secondary location is available on every paid plan: Starter alternates between the two, while Pro and Business check both at once. See Check locations for more on how checking from more than one place works.

How often the other checks run

You can fine-tune how often DomainDash runs your uptime checks on the Uptime tab. The other three checks (SSL certificate, DNS routing, and domain registration) change much more slowly, so DomainDash looks after their frequency for you. How often they run is set by your plan rather than per site:

• SSL certificates are checked anywhere from once a day to every few hours, depending on your plan.
• DNS records are checked on a similar cadence.
• Domain registration (the public WHOIS record of who owns a domain) changes least often of all, so it's checked roughly once a day. Paid plans check these more often than the free plan.

You can still turn any of these checks on or off on the General tab; that's separate from how often they run.

Related

• Check locations for how checking from more than one place works
• Content checks for confirming a page contains what it should
• Notification channels to choose how you're alerted when something goes wrong
• Site detail page to see the impact of your settings on your site's overview