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Tell HN: Uptimerobot.com offers a fake free plan
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Re: Tell HN: Uptimerobot.com offers a fake free plan
#12How is this plan fake?
OP didn't explain it well (at least what's happening to me): I am a free user for non-commercial purposes and they're terminating me if I don't upgrade to paid plan. The free option appears but it's unavailable to select.
I only use it to monitor the Uptime Kuma that monitors the rest of my homelab.
Re: Tell HN: Uptimerobot.com offers a fake free plan
#13Sounds like it’s genuinely free…… if you’re using it for non commercial use.
Not OP, but part of the problem here is the "non-commercial use" restriction was a retroactive change to their terms of service. Their free plan previously had no such restriction.
On November 4, they emailed free plan users describing an "Upcoming Change to UptimeRobot Free Plan ToS" which somehow already took effect on November 1.
They aren't actually enforcing the change until December 1, but even then, that's still less than a month of notice. Even for non-commercial purposes, I wouldn't trust this service after this move.
Re: Tell HN: Uptimerobot.com offers a fake free plan
#14I also run an uptime monitoring service with the same limitation, it's not sustainable in the long term to offer a free tier otherwise.
A bit annoyed about this change though, I used to recommend folks looking for a ridiculous free tier use uptime robot instead.
Re: Tell HN: Uptimerobot.com offers a fake free plan
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Is the custom domain for status pages available on the free plan?
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How about the commercial use of the free plan?
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Please don't use multiple accounts to promote your business on HN.