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Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page

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Re: Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page

#31

Post by npmaile »

Why are there so many things these days about using some super complex cloud solution hack for something that can fundamentally be done easier and more efficiently from a cron job on a raspi zero on a home network.

curl yoursite.tld | some_script_that_parses_the_result and generates an uptime page > githubpagescontent.md; git commit -m $(get_the_current_time.sh); git push origin master

for $20, you can get the same thing with waaaay less stuff going on behind the scenes and without taking advantage of the ci resource for something it wasn't fundamentally meant for.

Re: Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page

#34

Post by sitzkrieg »

npmaile wrote: post #31

Why are there so many things these days about using some super complex cloud solution hack for something that can fundamentally be done easier and more efficiently from a cron job on a raspi zero on a home network. curl yoursite.tld | some_script_that_parses_the_result and generates an uptime page > githubpagescontent.md; git commit -m $(get_the_current_time.sh); git push origin master for $20, you can get the same t…

not to mention when, not if, github goes down

Re: Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page

#35

Post by shaicoleman »

simon1573 wrote: post #8

I've been using updown.io for my side-projects the last 18 months and I'm very happy with the service. One comment pointed out that status monitoring is expensive - I think I've payed a grand total of $5 for these 18 months, so I don't agree at all.

updown.io is great - simple, reliable and cheap.

Re: Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page

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Post by [deleted] »

sitzkrieg wrote: post #34
npmaile wrote: post #31

Why are there so many things these days about using some super complex cloud solution hack for something that can fundamentally be done easier and more efficiently from a cron job on a raspi zero on a home network. curl yoursite.tld | some_script_that_parses_the_result and generates an uptime page > githubpagescontent.md; git commit -m $(get_the_current_time.sh); git push origin master for $20, you can get the same t…

not to mention when, not if, github goes down

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Re: Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page

#37

Post by andrew_ »

As a proof of concept this is fascinating, and I'm thankful the author chose to share it. It's got me thinking of how I might otherwise leverage Github Actions in unconventional ways. Acknowledging the potential abuse implications that others have mentioned in the comments, it's still a mind-expanding PoC that's going to make me think about things a little different in the future.

Re: Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page

#38

Post by judge2020 »

the_arun wrote: post #17
lipanski wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I second this - it sounds like a massive waste to spin up a Github Actions job in order to trigger a basic request every 5 minutes, 300 times a day. Why not just use a dedicated uptime service with a free tier? I've been using UptimeRobot [1] in the past - they give you 50 free checks at the same refresh rate of 5 minutes. [1] https://uptimerobot.com/

How about self hosted enterprise GitHub?

Then the issue is getting a GHE license. Maybe if there was a community edition...

Re: Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page

#39

Post by brian_herman »

ec109685 wrote: post #6

Neat. A lot of the status page solutions are very expensive. Up to 1500 a month: https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage And that doesn’t include the synthetic monitoring part. That said, we use site 24x7 at work and it works well enough.

Yeah, it starts and 29 and goes up from there 1500 is their maximum price...

Re: Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page

#40

Post by ralph84 »

arvindamirtaa wrote: post #26
Denvercoder9 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I doubt Microsoft (GitHub's owner) cares that much about such tiny usage. They probably don't care about one person doing this, but if tens of thousands of repositories start doing this it becomes a problem. > They run all of Azure, after all. They get paid for that.

They will for this too. Github actions aren't free. They just have a generous free tier.

No. Actions is 100% free for public repos. Full stop.
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