Re:Ask HN: What are some good lightweight server monitoring ...
by bigiain on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @02:25AM
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I'm happy with UptimeRobot, but they're not a heap less than $10/month.
If it's not really worth $10/month to you, do you really care that much? By the time you've "rolled your own" to save $10/month, how much time will you have spent and how close to the reliability of a bespoke service can you get for significantly less money? A cron job and a perl script or two on a $3/month vps will let you _say_ you're monitoring your servers, but if your monitor is less reliable that your web servers it's just going to wake you up on weekends and get ignored...
If it's not really worth $10/month to you, do you really care that much? By the time you've "rolled your own" to save $10/month, how much time will you have spent and how close to the reliability of a bespoke service can you get for significantly less money? A cron job and a perl script or two on a $3/month vps will let you _say_ you're monitoring your servers, but if your monitor is less reliable that your web servers it's just going to wake you up on weekends and get ignored...