For the uptime part: check whether your services respond, report outages, show a status page. Plus, if you like, the load on your servers. On your own instance.
Checkmate instead of StatusCake
Uptime checks for websites and servers, with response times, history and a status page. On your own instance, without tiers on the number and interval of checks.
about €4.00 / month All the pricing details
What you get out of it
You set the checks and intervals yourself
History and alerts stay with you
A status page for your users is included
StatusCake and Podless
| StatusCake and Podless | StatusCake | On Podless |
|---|---|---|
| Where the data lives | StatusCakeOn the provider’s servers | On PodlessIn your own instance in the EU |
| Source code | StatusCakeNot open to read | On PodlessOpen, you can read what runs |
| Ads and profiling | StatusCakePer the provider’s terms | On PodlessNone |
| Your own domain | StatusCakeUsually not offered | On PodlessIncluded, certificate too |
| Getting out again | StatusCakeAs far as the provider allows | On PodlessSFTP, database, backups to your storage |
| If it gets shut down | StatusCakeYou have to move | On PodlessYou decide when you leave |
Other swaps
Better Stack Checkmate
Datadog Beszel
For a handful of servers, less will do: CPU, memory, disk and network over time, containers per machine and alerts on thresholds. On your own instance, with no price per host.
UptimeRobot Checkmate
Uptime monitoring on your own instance: check whether your services respond and see how your servers are doing — without a cap on the number of checks.