One origin, said out loud
Every check runs from a single server and every result says so. We never present one location’s view as the whole internet’s: a site can fail in one region and work in another.
About UtiBox.
UtiBox answers one question honestly, “is it down, or is it just me?”, and keeps a box of free tools next to it. This page covers what we build, the rules we hold ourselves to, and how our checker behaves on your website.
What it is
A status checker that shows its work.
When a website won’t load, UtiBox requests it from our own server and shows you where it fails: the domain name (DNS), the connection, the security certificate or the page itself. If it works for us but not for you, the problem is probably closer to you, and the Is It My Internet? check helps you find out.
Around that we keep status pages for popular services, built from our own checks and moderated reports, and 69 free tools. Most of the tools run entirely in your browser.
Everything is free to use. UtiBox is paid for by advertising.
69free tools
1check location: UtiBox server (single origin)
30days we keep a check result, then it’s deleted
0files uploaded by our browser tools
Our rules
How we keep it honest.
A status site is only useful if you can trust it. These rules apply to every page, number and email we produce.
No fake data
No invented visitor counts, testimonials, uptime claims or “trusted by” logos. When we haven’t measured something, the page says “not measured” instead of guessing.
“Rolling out” means not yet
Features we haven’t finished carry a Rolling out or Soon tag. They’re never presented as live until they work.
Small data, short memory
Browser tools never upload. A check keeps a keyed hash of your IP address for 30 days, never the address itself. Details in our Privacy Policy.
Money
How UtiBox is paid for.
- The public tools stay free. Checks, status pages, static QR codes and the browser tools are free to use.
- Ads pay for it. Ads are served by Google AdSense and labelled “Advertisement”. They stay off the admin area, away from buttons, and their cookies wait for your consent where the law requires it. See our Privacy Policy.
For site owners
UtiBoxBot, our checker.
If you run a website, you may see this user agent in your server logs. It’s the UtiBox checker, fetching your page because somebody asked us whether it’s up.
User agent
UtiBoxBot/1.0 (+https://utibox.io/about#bot)
- Only on request. It fetches a URL only when a person asks UtiBox to check it, or for the scheduled checks of the services on our status pages. It doesn’t crawl, follow links on the page, load images or run JavaScript.
- A few requests at most. One GET for the address and one per redirect, up to 5 redirects. It also opens one TLS connection to read your certificate, and if the certificate fails, retries once without verification to see whether the site answers.
- Light and brief. A 3-second connect timeout and 8 seconds in total. It reads at most 256 KB of a response and never stores cookies.
- Cached. A result is reused for 30 seconds, so a crowd checking the same site at once causes one request, not hundreds.
- Never private networks. It refuses private, loopback and reserved addresses, and re-checks every redirect before following it.
- From one place. Every request comes from our single check server, shown on results as “UtiBox server (single origin)”. Because each one is made on a person’s behalf, like a browser visit, it doesn’t read robots.txt.
Seeing traffic you didn’t expect, or want to talk to us about your site?Contact us about UtiBoxBot
Scheduled checks of the services listed on our status pages use the same user agent and fetch only each service’s public homepage, about every 10 minutes.
Who we are
Who runs UtiBox.
UtiBox, short for Utility Box, is The Web Utility Box. It’s operated by DigiePal Networks LLC, 5830 E 2nd St, Ste 7000 #26169, Casper, Wyoming 82609, US. We’re independent and not affiliated with the websites and services we check.
The fastest way to reach a person is the contact form. For the details, read our Terms, Privacy Policy and accessibility statement.