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Uptime Monitoring

Uptime Monitoring

UptimeRobot, Uptime Kuma, Better Stack. Know when your site is down before your users tweet about it.

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Uptime Monitoring for Solo Founders: UptimeRobot vs Uptime Kuma vs Better Stack (2026)

We ran our self-hosted uptime monitor on the same VPS as the sites it was watching. When the server died, so did the alerting. Here is what we learned, and what the three real options actually cost.

Updated September 2026

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