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Tell HN: Uptimerobot.com offers a fake free plan
5 points by spapas82 2 hours ago | hide | past | web | 9 comments | favorite





If you're a business and can't afford $7 a month, then self-host an uptime checking tool like Uptime Kuma on a $5 Digital Ocean server.

Sounds like it’s genuinely free…… if you’re using it for non commercial use.

In my SaaS niche that's common. Some also exclude automated scripts (free only for manual testing), asset tracking (IOT devices sending 24/7) or "you're not allowed to permanently save the output of the tool". I wouldn't call that fake.

Find a cheap VPS and host Uptime Kuma. Thank me later :)

I switched to Kuma recently, but it's not all roses either. Their Docker image is based on Debian 10 with Go 1.19 and they don't feel the need to update because "OS level bugs are seldomely exploitable"

https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/issues/4885

So host it on a separate machine and don't put any secrets in there


I use Cloudflare zero trust to secure it.

How is this plan fake?

Are you switching?

If you want a free lunch, I can understand when you’re eventually disappointed.



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