well your log will tell you when you are offline… or in case the server stalls all out
the only reason one needs uptime robot or such is because the signal needs to get online or into a similar distributed network so it can reach the owner and complain, ofc uptime robot will just see if the port is open and something is responding on the other side.
yeah i also skipped the uptime robot setup… it seemed rather steep to pay them 5$ a month for an sms service, i cannot really use an online based alert, thats kinda want i want to avoid… i mean for the price of 6$ i can take an old mobil and hook up to the server with a mobile subscription and have that send me sms’s if the server has problems…
only difference is i can make it much more elaborate, and fully custom able and working as a separate system which can still get data from the server for communicating directly issues that may arise…
so yeah not really a fan of uptime robot, i think they are using the paid service to pay for the free service, because the paid service is way to over priced when one can basically copy their setup for the same monthly cost…
i mean with that setup i could essentially run my own uptime robot and ping online servers and send sms’s and the biggest cost is the subscription for the mobile phone, ofc in that case i would most likely just use an online sms service instead… but the old mobile is a pretty nice solution compared to uptime robot.
also there being exactly 1$ in difference kinda makes me think that uptime robot looked at the prices of cheapest mobile subscriptions in general and just subtracted a $.
which again seems to indicate that their business model isn’t to be good to their paying customers, but to squeeze them to pay for their free advertisement offering a service that basically costs them the same thing as their paid service, since the sms service utilization is basically free if one really uses it on a large scale then there is no reason to take 5$ and even with 15 tb stored my server still uses more power than it been earning… at best it’s even, so i really don’t want to add more expenses for i can only classify as a poor service unless if one uses the free service which only works online, meaning it’s only relevant if my internet or server is down, which in both cases is painfully obvious.
maybe i will use uptime robot one day… but i really don’t want to … that would just help pay for all the other people that uses it for free, which seems like most people from when people talk about it.
pretty neat business model they got tho…