// Water: the watching side of BDT
Sonar checks your website every minute and tells me the moment something is wrong. Beacon shows who visits and what they do, with no cookies. A plain-English report lands in your inbox every month.
Fire hosts your website (BDT Hosting). Water watches over it. Both from a local Calgary person who answers the phone.
Two parts, one report
Is my website working?
Who visits, and what do they do?
How it works
A few minutes. No logins to your website for Sonar. Beacon is one small folder.
Every minute, from a checker on my server and a second one outside it.
If both agree it is down, I get a task, an email and a push notification.
A report with a PDF for any outage, and a monthly report for every month.
What you get
These are examples with made-up numbers.
Your website was unavailable for 17 minutes, between 2:41 and 2:58 pm.
What happened. An update to one of your website's add-ons used up the server's memory, so pages showed an error.
What I did. I rolled the update back and raised the memory limit. The site came back and I checked that orders and the contact form still work.
What stops it happening again. Updates are now tested on a copy first.
Is your website working? It was up 99.95% of the time. Two short outages, both fixed the same day.
What visitors did. 38 people tapped your phone number, 24 started a pickup order, 17 opened the contact form.
One thing worth knowing. 61% of visits were on a phone, so how the site looks on a phone matters most.
Pricing
Canadian dollars, before GST. Cancel any time.
Know the moment it breaks
$2.50 /month
or $25 a year
Know it works, and what it earns
$5 /month
or $50 a year
Included
$0 extra
Sonar + Beacon come with the Blaze hosting plan.
See hosting plansNo. Sonar only loads your public pages the way a visitor would, so there is nothing to log in to. Beacon (the statistics) is a small folder on your website with its own login, which I set up with you.
No. Sonar makes about one small request a minute, roughly the traffic of one extra visitor. Beacon adds a tiny script that loads after your page is already showing, and its work happens afterwards on my server.
Not for the statistics. Beacon uses no cookies and does not store visitors' IP addresses, so it needs no consent banner. If you use other tools on your website (Google Analytics, ads, chat widgets), those are separate.
Two checkers (one of them outside my own server) have to agree, then I get an alert right away with what to check. For an outage of any size you get a plain-English report with a PDF: what happened, what I did, and what stops it happening again.
An email with a designed PDF report: how often your website was up, any outages, how fast it was, and with Beacon, who visited, where they came from and what they did (calls, forms, bookings). Every report links to your private page where you can open any month.
Yes. Reply to any email. Your monitoring stops, and the statistics folder can be removed from your website.
No. Sonar and Beacon work on any website, wherever it is hosted. On the top BDT Hosting plan they are included.
Sonar only requests your public pages, like any visitor. It never logs in, scans for weaknesses or changes anything on your website. Beacon counts visits without cookies and without keeping anyone's IP address. See the privacy page.
Tell me about your website and I'll switch it on, usually the same day.