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Website down? How to tell if it is DNS
If browsers fail to find your site's address, it looks down even when the server is fine. The check below asks public DNS what visitors' browsers get for your domain.
The DNS problems that take a site offline
Missing address records, a domain that no longer exists in DNS, name servers that do not answer, and broken DNSSEC signatures all stop visitors. Broken DNSSEC is the most confusing: the records are there, but validating resolvers – including Cloudflare's and Google's public ones – refuse to answer.
When it is not DNS
If DNS answers and the site still fails, the problem is the server or the certificate. The full check on the home page also asks Xovris's probe for the page and its certificate.