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My uptime monitor finally stayed green a month

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prague1983

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btw I use Arch

#1

One. Whole. Month.

After six months of Pingdom screaming at 3AM because Vultr's "premium" network in their Frankfurt location had another "scheduled emergency maintenance," I finally achieved enlightenment.

I just stopped monitoring the VM.

No alerts. No pages. No stress. 100% monitor uptime. SKILL ISSUE SOLVED.

Just use a shell script on localhost. If the box is down, it won't email you anyway.

(Real talk: it's been 34 days since anyone rebooted the hypervisor. I'm scared to breathe on it.)

oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
jane_ffm

Member

2 #2

Hi there — congratulations on the green streak! That's genuinely worth celebrating in this tier.

I'd love to help you get actual reliability alongside your monitoring peace of mind. A few things we can check via DM:

  • Whether your current plan includes our anycast-backed locations
  • If a speculative execution-optimized Ampere node might reduce the "maintenance events" you're seeing elsewhere

Our specs at the edge:

  • 99.95% SLA with credit backing
  • Native IPv6 + BGP communities
  • Monitoring integration via webhook or email

— Jane @ Contabo

Single mode till I die 💀
tamuma

Member

#3

My monitor stayed green for a year because I unplugged it

armstrongvds

Member

ARM Enjoyer

#4
tamuma said:
I unplugged it

That's the spirit! But hear me out — actual green is better than fake green!

I moved my monitoring stack to an Ampere Altra at Hostinger and it's been INSANE VALUE! 80 cores, runs circles around my old x86 box, and the BMC actually works!

Specs:

  • 2x Ampere Altra Max
  • 256GB DDR4 ECC
  • 2x 3.84TB NVMe
  • 10Gbps unmetered

Six months, zero unplanned downtime! The monitor is real AND green!

Unplugging is funny but you're flying blind!

one small ping for man...
GE

Member

#5

Which Altra Max SKU, the M128-30 or the Q80-33?

Doug

Member

New Jersey

#6

99.95% SLA with credit backing. You know. Credits don't pay for 3AM pages. You know...

grabs popcorn, checks /r/drama
DR

Member

#7

I had same issue with Vultr's "frankfurt equivalent". Never again.

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