Since 12:26 UTC an email channel to the owner's address is created the moment that address is verified, for every monitor in the account, and the panel says so: «Alerts go to by email, for every monitor. Change it or add Slack, Telegram and more under Alerts.» On Alerts it is listed as «Added when you signed up; change or remove it here». Only the owner's own verified address gets this, never a member's or an address someone else typed, and an account that already has a channel gets nothing.
Accounts that exist already are not changed. Instead, an account with running monitors and no working channel shows a banner on every panel page, «N monitors, no alert channel: nothing will reach you when a site goes down», with a button for the owner, «Send alerts to », that creates the same channel; a variant names the reason when the channels you have are turned off, unconfirmed or bounced. A hosting provider that runs accounts for its customers sees a «no alert channel» chip next to each customer nobody would hear about, unless one of its own channels covers customers.
This comes from this week's sign-ups: three of four new hosting providers had dozens of monitors and no channel. Details in Alert channels.
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