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Pingdom? Free? Well no more
realbusiness
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Pingdom has just announced that the free plans shall no longer be valid from 06 February 2019.
However, they are offering a 50% discounted rate for a period of two years.
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Sad!
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I switched to UptimeRobot a while back. They only check every 5 minutes instead of every minute, but you get 50 monitors for free, and can create a public status page (eg. mine is https://uptime.dan.cx/)
€12.95 every month to ping a server... hmmmmmm... nah.
Status: trying Freshping.
Future plans: search software to host my own ping automated checker.
I think Statuscake has unlimited free 5 minute monitors with public page.
Edit: Nevermind, they have removed it since I last used them. Now it's limited to 10 monitors with 15 minute interval. Sad.
I think you get to ping more than one server :P
You could all write your own software and then pay to host it on a VPS from someone here if you'd like. I say good for them. They need to make a profit somehow.
I use Hattrixlulz
I'm a happy nodeping user - ain't free, but 200 monitors for $15/month with unlimited SMS - it's really hard not to like that - and it's super rock solid.
Also happy with UptimeRobot. I've recently started using their web hook notifications to change DNS settings based on up/down status.
I didn't even think of that! That's a pretty clever idea (assuming a low enough TTL for the domain).
Yes, you do need a reasonable TTL for the record, maybe not the whole domain. It is certainly a poor man's solution (with 5 minute monitoring). You can get more creative, for example I have a Vultr snapshot and if there is an outage, I use an Uptime Robot web hook, spin up a Vultr VPS from the snapshot via API, and redirect the DNS record to that. I find the main advantage of using Uptime Robot for this is the monitoring from multiple sites, i.e. if I just used ping then I'd get too many false positives.
Just Night-Sky it.
They must have been hosting on HiFormance. With them bust there is no more $10/y servers to be had. 2019 is a sad year
Why no one mention smokeping? You can set ping interval as you wish and, relay with sendgrid for email alerts
The end is nigh!
I'm also using UptimeRobot nowadays
There is also UptimeDoctor with one minute interval on the free plan (http://www.uptimedoctor.com/en/pricing.php).
I basically stopped using Pingdom ever since they start restricting their free plans...
You can also try https://pingniner.com/app/ it is free while in beta
Hetrix tools and freshworks (freshping.io) both offer free 1 minute monitoring for a few sites.
https://hetrixtools.com/pricing/uptime-monitor/
https://www.freshworks.com/website-monitoring/pricing/
Freshworks looks good except spilling out shit on pingdom. Not very ethical, but hey, it's businezzzz
They say 5 minutes, but in practice, when I was signed up for a few services with 1 and 3 minute monitors, Uptime Robot still had the best response times. I'd see checks that were definitely under a minute. I always assumed they were just committing themselves to 5, but if they got the resources, they do 1 minute or less.
Plus, 50! Glad I went with them.