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As a happy StatusPage user, I am worried about this acquisition. Been more and more frustrated with Atlassian and recently we had to move away from HipChat due

by rmdoss 10y ago

As a happy StatusPage user, I am worried about this acquisition. Been more and more frustrated with Atlassian and recently we had to move away from HipChat due to multiple issues (constant downtimes). What are the good alternatives to StatusPage?

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cyberferret 10y ago
We use Cachet[1], an open source alternative. We checked out many status page services out there, but found it hard to understand how some of them (web apps with a handful of pages) were more expensive than our accounting system or project management services we subscribe to?!? [1] - https://cachethq.io/ https://cachethq.io/
- jkarneges 10y ago
  Status pages are best hosted offsite, which means status page companies can easily justify higher prices since the alternative is to run your own servers exclusively for the status page (can't just throw the status page software on your app server). I'm skeptical that running Cachet on your own servers would be cheaper than StatusPage's smallest plan, especially if you have any kind of redundancy in place.
  - cyberferret 10y ago
    Our main stack is on Amazon AWS (West Coast) and we run Cachet on a $5/mo Digital Ocean Droplet on the East Coast for redundancy. Took about 30 minutes to set up Cachet on the DO VPS. That is enough redundancy for our little bootstrapped web app until we are large enough to be able to afford something better.
    - brianwawok 10y ago
      And for another $5 you could likely round robin dns a vpn in Europe. Being cheap is fun.
- cyberferret 10y ago
  For those interested - I just blogged about how we set this up here: http://devan.blaze.com.au/blog/2016/7/15/building-a-status-page-for-5-per-month http://devan.blaze.com.au/blog/2016/7/15/building-a-status-p...
- retrack 10y ago
  Some are not that expensive, Runstatus[1] is 5$ a year with first year free. [1] - https://runstatus.com https://runstatus.com
- jbrooksuk 10y ago
  Hey, Lead Developer of Cachet here! Thanks for sharing a link to our project! @Everyone, if there is anything I can do to help, let me know! You can email us james@alt-three.com to discuss more.
1_800_UNICORN 10y ago
Are you really going to ditch StatusPage that quickly? I'm not a huge Atlassian fan myself, but StatusPage is a great tool.
- rmdoss 10y ago
  Not really, just looking for alternatives. Atlassian so far has been leaving a bad taste for us.
- Aldo_MX 10y ago
  It is good to know which alternatives exist, "just in case".
Miner49er 10y ago
hund.io is the best alternative in my opinion. It integrates with pingdom too, and has some other cool features.
logicallee 10y ago
>What are the good alternatives to StatusPage? http://i.imgur.com/adl7Yc3.png http://i.imgur.com/adl7Yc3.png

by rmdoss 10y ago

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cyberferret 10y ago

We use Cachet[1], an open source alternative. We checked out many status page services out there, but found it hard to understand how some of them (web apps with a handful of pages) were more expensive than our accounting system or project management services we subscribe to?!? [1] - https://cachethq.io/ https://cachethq.io/

jkarneges 10y ago
Status pages are best hosted offsite, which means status page companies can easily justify higher prices since the alternative is to run your own servers exclusively for the status page (can't just throw the status page software on your app server). I'm skeptical that running Cachet on your own servers would be cheaper than StatusPage's smallest plan, especially if you have any kind of redundancy in place.
- cyberferret 10y ago
  Our main stack is on Amazon AWS (West Coast) and we run Cachet on a $5/mo Digital Ocean Droplet on the East Coast for redundancy. Took about 30 minutes to set up Cachet on the DO VPS. That is enough redundancy for our little bootstrapped web app until we are large enough to be able to afford something better.
  - brianwawok 10y ago
    And for another $5 you could likely round robin dns a vpn in Europe. Being cheap is fun.
cyberferret 10y ago
For those interested - I just blogged about how we set this up here: http://devan.blaze.com.au/blog/2016/7/15/building-a-status-page-for-5-per-month http://devan.blaze.com.au/blog/2016/7/15/building-a-status-p...
retrack 10y ago
Some are not that expensive, Runstatus[1] is 5$ a year with first year free. [1] - https://runstatus.com https://runstatus.com
jbrooksuk 10y ago
Hey, Lead Developer of Cachet here! Thanks for sharing a link to our project! @Everyone, if there is anything I can do to help, let me know! You can email us james@alt-three.com to discuss more.

1_800_UNICORN 10y ago

Are you really going to ditch StatusPage that quickly? I'm not a huge Atlassian fan myself, but StatusPage is a great tool.

rmdoss 10y ago
Not really, just looking for alternatives. Atlassian so far has been leaving a bad taste for us.
Aldo_MX 10y ago
It is good to know which alternatives exist, "just in case".

Miner49er 10y ago

hund.io is the best alternative in my opinion. It integrates with pingdom too, and has some other cool features.

logicallee 10y ago

>What are the good alternatives to StatusPage? http://i.imgur.com/adl7Yc3.png http://i.imgur.com/adl7Yc3.png