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Looking for monitoring that going to text me when server goes down but without monthly fee. I tried some stuff but everything wants 10 dollar per month minimum. This is for a small vps on OVHcloud, nothing critical, just dont want to find out 2 days later when client calls going "your thing is broken". Any idea? I only need like 5 texts per month max.
Thank you for asking, pauloserver. You can try Twilio pay-per-use, bro, no monthly fee lah, only pay when you send SMS. But need to slow-slow check the pricing, can be tricky if you send to many countries. Also you can use carrier email gateway, send email to phone number @ carrier domain, free one. Thank you.
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- Twilio: pay-per-use, ~$0.0075/SMS
- NOTE: requires verified sender ID in some regions
- Carrier email-to-SMS:
- pros: zero cost
- WARNING: unreliable, often delayed 5-15 min
- PagerDuty free tier: 5 SMS/month included
- NOTE: single user only
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- Alternative not yet mentioned:
- Telegram Bot API
- no SMS cost
- requires user has Telegram installed
Twilio good. Price bad for low volume. PagerDuty free tier okay but 5 texts tight. Perkele. Telegram bot free but another app. Server down, phone already has SMS. No need more apps.
Actually the Email-to-SMS Gateway is a good Approach or? In Germany we have the T-Mobile Gateway but actually the Problem is that these Gateways are not very reliable and actually disappear without Warning so that is why I would not recommend this for Production Use or? Better to build a small Telegram Bot actually because the API is very simple and actually you only need a few Lines of Python and actually the Bot can send Messages to your Phone without any Cost and actually this is what I would do in your Situation or?
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In my experience, the 5 SMS limit resets monthly and they don't nag you to upgrade immediately. That said, if you're already running Windows Server, the built-in SMTP can hook to carrier gateways pretty cleanly. Most Linux folks overlook how straightforward that is.
Went with telegram bot in the end took 20 minutes 2day works great thanks everyone 4ever
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Carrier email-to-SMS delayed 15 min? That's useless for down alerts
Which carrier you using for email-to-SMS, I tried t-mobile and it was 10+ min
