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Tell HN: Uptimerobot.com offers a fake free plan

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Post by spapas82 »

Hey HN, I am using uptimerobot.com for some years now through its free plan. It monitors some hobby-non really important projects. The same plan is advertised here: https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/

However, before some days I got the following email: "From 1st November 2024, our Free Plan is for non-commercial use only. If you're using it for business, you'll need to upgrade to a paid plan and now they are forcing me to update."

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Post by yread »

RockRobotRock wrote: post #7

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

Re: Tell HN: Uptimerobot.com offers a fake free plan

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Post by RockRobotRock »

yread wrote: post #8
RockRobotRock wrote: post #7

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.
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