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Uptime report card: five budget hosts, one monitoring account

Reviews by lee_mcr 2 replies 210 views
#1

Right then, figured I'd do something a bit mad. Set up UptimeKuma on a tiny HostHatch instance and pointed it at five budget providers I actually use or have used. Same monitoring node, same checks (HTTP every 60s, ICMP every 30s), 90-day window ending yesterday.

The lads:

1. Hostinger (us) - 99.97% - proper solid, though I'm biased
2. Vultr - 99.94% - one blip during their Tokyo routing mess
3. Leaseweb - 99.71% - three outages, total 3.8 hours
4. Time4VPS - 99.68% - frequent micro-outages, 2-5 min
5. CloudCone - 98.42% - the proper disaster. 22.7 hours total downtime. Scheduled maintenance with no notice, then an unscheduled storage migration that went sideways.

Dashboard screenshot:

Host            | 30d   | 60d   | 90d   | Total Down
Hostinger      | 100%  | 99.95%| 99.97%| 38m
Vultr        | 99.98%| 99.91%| 99.94%| 78m
Leaseweb        | 99.82%| 99.74%| 99.71%| 3h48m
Time4VPS        | 99.72%| 99.70%| 99.68%| 4h12m
CloudCone      | 98.11%| 98.38%| 98.42%| 22h42m

Cheers lads, interested to see if anyone from these hosts wants to comment. I know some of you lurk.

Honey badger don't care... about downtime
1 #2

How much does the monitoring node cost you per month?? Also did you set up alerts or just check manually!!

This is really helpful btw, im looking for my first vps and budget is tight!! Thanks for doing this!!

learning on $5 VPS and prayers
#3

Actually the HostHatch monitoring node introduces Single pointof failure. YourMonitor could be down while Hosts are up. Oder?

You should run Multiple monitoring nodes with Cross verification. Oder?

Actually your 90day window is too Short for meaningful Annual uptime projection. Oder?

CloudCone numbers are Disasterous but not Surprising for their PricePoint. Oder?

two disks down, still serving

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