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I was $20+ for years on Linode. Moved to Hetzner CX11 at €4.51, same performance. The $20+ was inertia, not need. Took a thread like this to make me check.

Omg same here. My hosting provider uses old supermicro and now I cant get into my server. This is so dumb who still uses java in 2026!

Smart move declining. Brick building has had two cooling failures in the last 18 months that I know of from status page alerts. Annex stayed up. The cloud VPS reboots were never explained properly.

I wonder what the power cost split looks like

Same here. Running my own monitoring now because of this thread. Thanks FlowSana.

Pingdom is SolarWinds now. Pricing starts at like $15 for 10 monitors. You'd need $150+ for 54 sites. Not cheap.

Check Uptime Kuma on a self-hosted VPS. Light, clean, does notifications through Twilio for SMS if you really need it. Twilio's not free but way cheaper than $79/month for your volume.

Porkbun is fine for US registrants. For EU, GDPR compliance on their WHOIS handling is questionable. I stick with OVHcloud or Gandi for anything I care about.