Julian 

Oh and I’ve got one little treat to share: It costs 1-2€ per month to get external status monitoring (using #UptimeKuma) by just ordering a 1-2GB RAM VPS at #netcup.

They are not listed directly on their website so use Google to find their cheapest offer for “VPS Piko G11s” or “VPS nano G11s”. Current links:

https://www.netcup.com/de/server/vps/vps-piko-g11s-12m (seems sold out today)
https://www.netcup.com/de/server/vps/vps-nano-g11s-6m

#uptimekuma #netcup #diday #homelab #selfhosting #digitalindependenceday

VPS piko G11s 12M bei netcup

VPS piko G11s 12M – Kosteneffizient & flexibel | netcup

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Show threadJulian Feb 1

I personally have also installed Coolify on it. At first, I had Uptime Kuma installed manually but figured “why not use Coolify here as well…”.

I can still recommend enabling #zram to help a bit with the memory consumption.

Show threadJulian Feb 1
I like the simplicity of #UptimeKuma to aggregate all services into an end-user friendly view. Although took me a while to actually create it ;-)
Show threadJulian Feb 1

Yet another trick when monitoring some special DNS records in #UptimeKuma: Use DNS-over-HTTPS, it gives you all the freedom you like!

For example, monitoring your DANE TLSA record is possible by this!

Show threadJohn Sturgeon6d ago
@Loredo One other option is to keep it in house, and use the free healthchecks.io as a dead man's notification if your #homelab goes down
Show threadJulian 6d ago
@johnsturgeon yea but this is about doing as much as possible yourself ;)
Show threadJohn Sturgeon6d ago
@Loredo Fair point, and interesting philosophical question about what part of your notification ’chain' is DIY, do you use Telegram, Discord, SMS, etc.. to receive the notifications of downed services on your phone?Are you using a phone? Email notifications? Is your email self-hosted? At some point it’s important to balance using existing resources, v. hosting yourself and I find that the question of 'additional' cost of a solution is important
Show threadJulian 6d ago
@johnsturgeon my toots were written on #digitalindependenceday so that mau mean something? 😬
And yes, email and chat hosting were in my other toots as well. That was exactly the point in my message here: having the status update and monitoring on a separate server. It may use different notification destinations so keep me posted if any of the self-hosted notification services would be affected.
Show threadJohn Sturgeon6d ago

@Loredo For sure, the reason I'm even mentioning it is how difficult it can be to become digitally independent. I admire the effort :)

I do like healthchecks.io because I can self-host it if I wanted to (FWIW) -- Also, it is a one-man (out of Latvia) shop who's values I support:

https://healthchecks.io/about/

About - Healthchecks.io

Healthchecks.io is a simple and effective cron job monitoring service. Founded in Latvia in 2015, hosted on bare metal servers at Hetzner, open source.