isupmap.com

isUpMap is a real-time status heatmap that checks whether the services you depend on are up, degraded, or down right now. It covers 80+ popular internet services and shows current status alongside recent incidents and per-service uptime. The live dashboard fetches status dynamically and requires JavaScript — without it, you'll see the monitoring scope but not the live up/down heatmap or incident history.

What isUpMap monitors

The directory spans several categories of widely used services:

If a service you rely on appears in this list, isUpMap can show its current state without you visiting each provider's own status page.

How status is determined and displayed

The dashboard works by fetching service status dynamically when the page loads. Each monitored service is mapped to one of three states:

• Up — the service is operating normally.
• Degraded — the service is reachable but experiencing partial problems.
• Down — the service is unavailable.

These states are rendered as a heatmap, so you can scan many services at once and spot which ones are healthy versus struggling. Alongside the current status, isUpMap surfaces recent incidents and per-service uptime, giving context beyond the immediate moment — a service that's up right now may still show a recent incident or a dip in uptime.

Checking a specific service

1. Open isUpMap in a browser with JavaScript enabled.
2. Let the dashboard fetch the latest status (you'll briefly see "Fetching service status...").
3. Either scan the heatmap for the service you care about, or use the directory to jump to a specific one.
4. Read the service's current state, then check its recent incidents and uptime for context.

The site also supports direct lookups phrased as questions — for example, "is GitHub down?" or "is OpenAI down?" — which take you straight to that service's status.

Key limitations to keep in mind

• JavaScript is required. The live heatmap, incident history, and per-service uptime only appear once JavaScript runs. Without it, you see the list of monitored services but no live data.
• Desktop is recommended. The site notes it is best viewed on desktop, so the heatmap layout may be harder to read on smaller screens.
• Scope is fixed to the directory. isUpMap covers the 80+ services it monitors; a service outside that list won't have a status here.

For a quick, consolidated read on whether the tools you depend on are healthy right now, isUpMap is useful when you have JavaScript enabled and want a single view across many services rather than checking each provider individually.

Cybersecurity is the practice of keeping your data, accounts, and services from being accessed, stolen, altered, or knocked offline by someone who shouldn't have them. For a personal site or small online presence, that reduces to a short list of concrete jobs: protect your login credentials, keep your software current, serve traffic over HTTPS, and lock down the domain and DNS layer that everything else depends on. You don't need an enterprise security team to cover the basics — but you do need to treat your registrar account and your hosting account as the two most valuable things you own, because whoever controls those controls the site.

What cybersecurity actually protects

It helps to separate the assets from the threats, because most small-site incidents come from a handful of causes.

The pattern: each asset has one or two controls that remove most of the risk. You don't need all of them on day one, but skipping the account and domain layers is the mistake that's hardest to undo.

The threat categories a small site actually faces

• Credential theft — reused or weak passwords, or credentials leaked from another breached service. This is the most common way small sites fall.
• Phishing — fake login pages or "your domain is expiring" emails designed to capture your registrar or hosting password.
• Malware and backdoors — usually arriving through an outdated CMS, plugin, or theme.
• DDoS — flooding a site until it's unreachable; often handled by your host or a CDN rather than by you.
• Misconfiguration — an open admin panel, directory listing, or default credentials left in place.

Notice that four of the five are about access, not exotic exploits. That's why the basics work.

Core protections to apply first

Use strong, unique passwords and a password manager

Every account tied to your site — registrar, host, CMS, email — should have a different password. A password manager makes this practical. The goal is that one leaked password can't be replayed anywhere else.

Turn on multi-factor authentication

MFA is the single highest-value control for your registrar and hosting accounts. Even if a password is stolen, an attacker without the second factor can't log in. Prefer an authenticator app or hardware key over SMS where the service supports it.

Serve everything over HTTPS

An HTTPS/TLS certificate encrypts traffic between visitors and your site and prevents browser "not secure" warnings. Most hosts and registrars offer a free certificate; the important part is that it's installed and that HTTP redirects to HTTPS.

Update promptly and keep the surface small

Apply CMS, plugin, and theme updates as they're released, and delete anything you're not using. Fewer components means fewer places for a known vulnerability to sit unpatched.

Apply least privilege

Give each person (and each integration) only the access they need. Don't run your site day-to-day from an administrator account, and don't hand out admin rights for tasks that don't require them.

Secure the domain and DNS layer

This layer is easy to overlook and expensive to lose, because a hijacked domain can point anywhere.

• Protect the registrar account with a unique password and MFA. Your registrar account is the root of control over the domain.
• Enable the registrar lock (often called a transfer lock or clientTransferProhibited) so the domain can't be moved without your action.
• Keep registrant contact email secure — that inbox is often the recovery path for the domain.
• Enable DNSSEC where your registrar and DNS provider support it, so responses can be cryptographically validated and spoofing is harder.
• Watch for unauthorized DNS changes — if records you didn't touch appear, treat it as a compromise.

Porkbun is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar, which means it operates under ICANN's registrar rules — relevant here because those rules govern transfers, locks, and registrant contact requirements. Its site lists Stripe among its payment platforms. Beyond that, check your specific registrar's and DNS provider's current feature set for lock and DNSSEC support, since availability varies.

Warning signs and first steps if something looks wrong

Watch for: unexpected DNS records, visitors reporting malware warnings, unexplained admin accounts, a sudden traffic drop, or emails about transfers you didn't request.

If you suspect a compromise:

1. Change passwords on registrar, hosting, and CMS accounts, starting with the registrar.
2. Revoke active sessions and reset MFA where possible.
3. Check DNS records against what you expect and revert unauthorized changes.
4. Restore from a known-good backup if files were altered.
5. Re-scan and update the software before reopening the site.

Containment first, then recovery — don't try to clean a live, still-compromised site.

What to outsource vs. manage yourself

Hosting-level security, CDN, and WAF are usually worth outsourcing because they require scale and constant attention. Account hygiene, MFA, updates, and domain/DNS protection are things you should keep in your own hands regardless of size — they're cheap to do and costly to skip.

isUpMap is a real-time status heatmap that shows whether 80+ popular internet services are up, degraded, or down right now. To check a specific service, open isupmap.com in a JavaScript-enabled browser, find the service on the live heatmap, and read its current state; then check the Recent incidents section and the per-service uptime view for context. The live dashboard requires JavaScript — without it, you'll only see the static list of monitored services, not their status.

What isUpMap shows you

The site monitors a fixed directory of services and reports one of three states for each:

• Up — the service is responding normally.
• Degraded — the service is reachable but performing below normal.
• Down — the service is not responding.

Alongside the current state, the dashboard surfaces recent incidents and per-service uptime, so you can tell the difference between a one-off blip and a sustained outage.

Step-by-step: checking one service

1. Open isupmap.com in a browser with JavaScript enabled. If JavaScript is off, the page will show the monitored service list but not the live up/down heatmap, incident history, or uptime data.
2. Locate your service on the live heatmap. Services are grouped by category (see the table below), so scan the relevant group rather than the whole grid.
3. Read the state. Up, degraded, or down — this is the current check, not a historical average.
4. Open the per-service view for that service. The site provides direct lookups phrased as questions, e.g. "is GitHub down?" or "is OpenAI down?". This gives you the service-specific uptime information rather than the aggregate heatmap.
5. Check Recent incidents. If the service shows degraded or down, the incident list tells you whether it's a known, ongoing event or something the heatmap caught on its own.

Expected result: you end up with a current state plus enough context (incident history, uptime) to decide whether the problem is on the service's side or yours.

Services you can check

The directory covers 80+ services across these categories:

The full status directory is browsable on the site, so if your service isn't in the examples above, check the directory before assuming it isn't covered.

Common snags

• Blank or static page. Almost always JavaScript being disabled or blocked. Enable it and reload; the heatmap, incidents, and uptime all depend on it.
• "Fetching service status…" that never resolves. The dashboard pulls live data, so a stalled fetch usually means a network, extension, or content-blocker problem on your end — not that every service is down.
• Reading the heatmap as a verdict on your own connection. A service showing "up" while you can't reach it points to a local issue (DNS, ISP, VPN, firewall) rather than an outage.
• Mobile layout. The site notes it is best viewed on desktop, so a cramped or partially rendered heatmap on a phone is a display limitation, not missing data.

How to use the result

If the service is down or degraded and appears in Recent incidents, the problem is on the provider's side — waiting or checking their own status page is the practical move. If the service shows up but you still can't reach it, treat it as a local problem and troubleshoot your connection, DNS, or any proxy/VPN in between. If the service isn't in the directory at all, isUpMap can't answer the question for it.

isUpMap is a real-time status heatmap that shows whether 80+ popular internet services are up, degraded, or down right now. It's useful when you suspect a third-party outage — for example, when GitHub pushes fail, OpenAI calls time out, or Stripe payments stop processing — and you want to check whether the problem is on your side or the provider's. The live dashboard requires JavaScript to render the heatmap, incident history, and per-service uptime.

What it monitors

The site groups services into categories rather than listing them one by one:

The site also offers a full status directory and per-service pages, such as "is GitHub down?" and "is OpenAI down?".

What you get from the dashboard

• Live up/down heatmap — a single view of current status across all monitored services, so you can spot a pattern (e.g., multiple cloud providers degraded at once) instead of checking each provider's status page individually.
• Recent incidents — a running list of incidents, useful for confirming whether a failure you just hit is already known.
• Per-service uptime — uptime information for individual services, helpful when you need to judge whether an outage is a one-off or a recurring pattern.

When to use it

Reach for isUpMap when:

• A dependency fails and you need to rule out a provider-side outage before debugging your own code.
• Several services misbehave at once and you want to see whether the failures share a cause.
• You're evaluating a provider and want a quick read on its recent reliability.

It is a status aggregator, not a monitoring tool for your own infrastructure — it reports on the third-party services listed, not on your site or application.

Practical notes

• The live dashboard needs JavaScript enabled; without it, you'll see the monitored-service list but not the heatmap, incident history, or uptime data.
• The site states it is best viewed on desktop, so the heatmap layout may be cramped on a phone.
• Status data reflects the providers' own reported states, so treat it as a fast first check rather than a guarantee — if isUpMap shows a service as up but your requests still fail, the issue is likely on your side or in the network path between you and the provider.

isUpMap tracks live up/down status for 80+ popular internet services across five categories: AI, Developer & Cloud, Payments, Communication, and Productivity & Media. If the service you depend on falls into one of those groups, you can check its current state on the live heatmap, browse the full status directory, or open a dedicated page for that service (for example, "is GitHub down?" or "is OpenAI down?").

Services covered, by category

The site groups its monitored services into these categories. The examples below are the ones named on isUpMap.

The "and more" on the AI line signals the list isn't exhaustive — the full directory is the authoritative source for what's currently monitored.

How to check a specific service

1. Live heatmap — the homepage shows a real-time up/down heatmap for all monitored services at once. Each service reads as up, degraded, or down right now. This view requires JavaScript enabled in your browser.
2. Full status directory — browse the complete list of monitored services if you want to scan everything rather than a single name.
3. Per-service pages — for individual checks, isUpMap offers pages phrased as questions, e.g. "is GitHub down?" or "is OpenAI down?". These give a focused answer plus that service's uptime and incident history.

Expected result: you land on a current status (up, degraded, or down) rather than a cached or historical snapshot, since the dashboard fetches status live.

What you get beyond a single status

• Recent incidents — a section listing recent incidents, so you can tell whether a current problem is new or part of an ongoing event.
• Per-service uptime — individual service pages include uptime figures alongside the live state.
• Customize — the dashboard has a customization option, useful if you only care about a subset of the 80+ services.

Common snags

• Blank dashboard: the live heatmap, incident history, and per-service uptime all need JavaScript. If the page shows "Fetching service status..." and nothing else, JavaScript is likely disabled or blocked.
• Mobile experience: isUpMap notes it is best viewed on desktop, so the heatmap layout may be cramped on a phone.
• Coverage gaps: with 80+ services, coverage is broad but not universal. If your tool isn't in the five categories above, check the full directory before assuming it's tracked.

Quick decision guide

• You want a fast pulse on many services at once → use the live heatmap on the homepage (desktop, JavaScript on).
• You need one specific answer → use the per-service page ("is X down?").
• You want to confirm coverage before relying on it → open the full status directory and search for your service.