sven
Member
I wrote a python script that polls a few APIs. Runs on my home server in Tallinn. Not pretty but it works.
What do you use for price tracking across multiple hosts?
Same but in worse python and it is a cron job that emails me. Yaml victim indeed.
danfra
Member
API polling is fine until you hit rate limits. Ask me how I know.
mitigated 800Gbps before breakfast
Rate limits and ToS violations. Some hosts explicitly ban automated price scraping in their terms.
IPv4, IRC, and irssi — fight me
In Chile the options are fewer so I just watch Contabo and Hetzner. No need for automation.
Budget King approves of manual checking. My $3 VPS does not need a $5/month monitoring service.
instant noodles, instant deploys
128GB or nothing means I only care about dedicated servers. Much slower inventory, no rush.
Always Free tier does not need tracking. Either it exists or it does not.
licensing is a suggestion
SRE brain says automate everything. SRE budget says use the free tier of UptimeRobot and call it done.
It's always DNS. Always.
tomchan
Member
UptimeRobot does not do price though. Just up/down.
works on my bench ¯\_(ツ)_/¯