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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 wi
by 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 agoStatus 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 agoOur 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 agoAnd for another $5 you could likely round robin dns a vpn in Europe. Being cheap is fun.
- cyberferret 10y agoFor those interested - I just blogged about how we set this up here: http://devan.blaze.com.au/blog/2016/7/15/building-a-status-page-for-5-per-month http://devan.blaze.com.au/blog/2016/7/15/building-a-status-p...
- retrack 10y agoSome are not that expensive, Runstatus[1] is 5$ a year with first year free. [1] - https://runstatus.com https://runstatus.com
- jbrooksuk 10y agoHey, 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.