I run it on oracle cloud always free tier, it's the only service I run there. I just let it oing my subdomains every 2 minutes and send me notifications on telegram. But I don't think that's a solution for you, since you don't want to use a vps
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I checked out the Free tier and I like it a lot, already created an instance and tested it a little, and I believe it’s more than enough for running Caddy and Uptime Kuma, so thank you very much for this :)
I don’t have a problem with using a VPS, I just don’t want to pay for another one in addition to my current one just for this one small thing. Sorry if my wording was confusing, English is not my primary language.
Thanks for the Oracle Cloud tip, I will definitely check it out. So far I tried fly.io but that has weird problems (I can only access the site from Safari on my mobile, from any other browser or device I can’t - even plain ping to the domain name returns service unavailable).
If you’re not familiar with it, check out lowendbox.com. You can very often find good deals there; not all of them are reliable in the long run, but I’ve found several hosts that have been just great.
Thanks, I’ve never heard about it, will definitely check it out!
Using a fly.io free tier
https://noted.lol/easy-off-site-monitoring-with-fly-io-and-uptime-kuma/
This is what I do. I ran into issues with monitoring too many services so I switched to a hybrid approach. I run an instance in my server that check the status of all my services and a separate instance in Fly.io that checks the status of my local UptimeKuma install
Free tier compute engine on GCP might be suitable for your use case: https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#compute
Just remember that if you exceed the free tier limit, you'll get charged based on resource usage. Make sure to setup a billing alert you won't get surprise charge.
You can point a Cloudflare proxy at an IPv6 address, and you'll then be able to access the website via IPv4.
I have Kuma setup on one of my VPS' and one endpoint I monitor is on healthchecks.io.
This way Kuma can monitor whatever I need and if HC doesn't get a "ping" every 5 minutes I get an alert from them. They have a free teir for 20 checks I believe it is.
I would say use an external service like https://uptimerobot.com/ to monitor your server.
You could still run uptimekuma on the server to keep track of individual service status.
I would like to use something open source. For now, I use the free tier of cronitor.io for my two websites and 3 cron jobs, but with that the free tier is all used up and I will have a bunch more services I want to monitor too.