Catch a website problem at dawn — fix what is safe, flag the rest

A website does not usually fail with a loud crash. It slips. A debug setting flips on after an update and starts printing raw errors on a couple of pages. A log file swells unchecked until it fills the disk. Scheduled jobs stack up and stop running. The security certificate creeps toward its expiry date. None of it pages you at 2am — you find out when a customer emails, or when you happen to look, days later, after the damage is done.

What I built

A monitor that checks the whole site every morning and acts on what it finds, on its own:

• Probes the live site, read-only. It requests the key pages and checks each one loads cleanly with no raw error text on show, confirms the security certificate is valid and not about to expire, and inspects the platform itself — pending updates, the active theme, stuck scheduled jobs, and any recent fatal error in the logs.
• Fixes what is safe to fix. A tight, pre-approved list only: re-disable an error display that regressed, truncate a bloated log, clear a stuck job backlog, clear a cache-driven blip. Nothing else is ever touched automatically.
• Emails one plain report every day — what it checked, what it fixed, and what needs a human — whether or not it found anything.

The safety rails are the point

This runs against a live production site, so it is built to be paranoid:

• The check step never changes anything — it only reads and reports.
• Every fix takes a backup first, then applies, then re-checks the page for a clean result, and rolls itself back automatically if that check does not pass.
• It caps itself at a few changes per run and refuses to touch anything with real stakes — platform and plugin updates, a certificate renewal, content, pricing, or core configuration are flagged for a person, never shipped on their own.

The result

A small problem gets caught and cleared before breakfast instead of surfacing as a customer complaint a week later. You get a standing daily record that the site is up, valid, and healthy — and a short, honest list of the few things that actually need your attention.

Who this is for

Any business whose website is the storefront and who cannot afford for it to degrade unnoticed — especially anyone running a site they do not log into every day.