Website backup + emergency failover

Your host goes down. Your website doesn’t.

Siteavail keeps a working copy of your website on separate infrastructure. When your host has an outage, point your domain at the copy and visitors keep reading, calling, and finding you.

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  • Free plan for every site
  • 14 days of failover on us
  • No payment details needed
  • No plugins or server access
  • Works with any host or platform
  • Your own domain, with SSL
  • Open any backup, anytime

How it works

Set it up once. It’s ready when you need it.

1

Add your website

Type your web address. We capture your site the way a visitor’s browser sees it: no plugin, no passwords, any host or platform.

2

Check your copy

Every backup opens like a normal website. Click through it and preview exactly what failover would serve, before anything goes wrong.

3

Switch over during an outage

If your host goes down, update your DNS and visitors see your latest backup, with SSL, until the host recovers. Then switch back.

Why it’s different

Test your failover before the outage, not during it.

A backup you can’t open is a hope. Siteavail’s copy is a website you’ve already clicked through, sitting on infrastructure your host can’t take down with it.

A normal dayNothing for you to do
Scheduled backupCopy stored off your hostPreview ready to check
An outage dayOne DNS change
Your host failsPoint DNS at SiteavailVisitors see your site

Ready before the incident

Your failover address exists from day one, so an outage never starts with setup.

SSL handled for you

Certificates are issued automatically, so visitors never hit a security warning.

Easy to undo

When your host is back, point DNS home. Your backups stay for the next time.

Straight answers

A standby copy, not a second server.

Failover keeps your public information in front of people while your host is fixed. Here’s what that covers, and what it doesn’t.

Visitors can

  • Read every page and menu captured in your latest backup
  • See your images, prices, products, and public documents
  • Find your phone number, address, hours, and support links

It doesn’t replace

  • Checkout, logins, account areas, or form submissions
  • Site search or anything else that needs your server
  • Your hosting: failover is for emergencies, not everyday traffic

Pricing

Start free. Upgrade the sites that matter.

Every plan is priced per website. Try Weekly or Daily free for 14 days with failover included. No payment details needed.

Day 1Add your site. Your first backup starts right away.
Days 1–14Full plan, failover included. Open every backup.
After the trialAdd a payment method to keep your plan, or the site moves to Free.
Free
$0forever

Monthly backups you can open anytime.

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  • Monthly backups on a fixed schedule
  • 3 months of history
  • 1 on-demand backup a month
  • Browsable backups and failover preview
  • Sites up to 500 pages
  • No failover on your domain
Most sites Weekly
$9/month per site

Weekly backups with failover.

Try free for 14 days
  • Weekly backups on a fixed schedule
  • 6 months of history
  • 4 on-demand backups a month
  • DNS failover with automatic SSL
  • Sites up to 500 pages
Daily
$39/month per site

For sites that change every day, or need a longer history.

Try free for 14 days
  • Daily backups, or your own schedule
  • A year of history
  • On-demand backups whenever you need them
  • Failover for larger sites
  • Crawl tuning, API access, priority support
Custom
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For large sites and multi-site portfolios.

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  • No crawl or storage caps
  • Volume pricing
  • Custom schedules and retention
  • Failover drills and an SLA by agreement

Failover is for temporary emergency use while your primary hosting is unavailable. See the failover terms and fair use policy.

For agencies and site managers

Cover every client site, then upgrade the ones that need it.

Put your whole portfolio on Free in one go and give every client a browsable backup. Turn on failover site by site, when a client wants it, from one account and one invoice.

Talk to us about your portfolio
  • Your whole portfolio, coveredEvery client site gets monthly backups on Free.
  • Upgrade per site$9 for Weekly with failover, $39 for Daily. Only for the sites that need it.
  • One account, one invoiceVolume pricing from 10 sites. Share read-only access with each client.

FAQ

Questions people ask first.

Something else? Email [email protected] and a person will answer.

What’s included on the Free plan?

Monthly backups you can open and click through, three months of history, one on-demand backup a month, and the failover preview, for sites up to 500 pages. Failover on your own domain starts with Weekly at $9 a month per site.

What happens after the 14-day trial?

If you’ve added a payment method, the site continues on the plan you picked. If not, it moves to Free: backups continue monthly and Free keeps one from each month for three months, but failover switches off until you upgrade.

What exactly does Siteavail back up?

The public pages of your website and the front-end assets needed to show them later: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, and public documents.

Will checkout, logins, or forms work during failover?

No. Checkout, account logins, site search, and form submissions need your server. Failover keeps your public information visible while your host is fixed.

Do I have to change DNS before an outage?

No. Backups run without touching DNS. You only update DNS when you choose to switch over, and Siteavail gives you the exact records.

How fast can failover go live?

Your copy is ready on our side before anything happens. The switch itself mostly depends on your DNS provider and TTL settings once you update your records.

Start free

See your own site’s standby copy today.

Create an account, add your website, and your first backup starts right away.

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No payment details needed. Cancel or delete sites anytime.