Pricing | Better Uptime
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/06
Reminder to show how well my experimentation with [Wayback/Archive] Better Uptime went and how they compare to [Wayback/Archive] UptimeRobot.
For now I am at this plan in [Wayback/Archive] Pricing | Better Uptime:
Free:
- e-mail alerts
- 3-minute checks
- 10 monitors
This suffices to keep an eye on the modest IT infrastructure at both our home and the one from my mentally retarded brother.
Note that other prices on that pages are per month. Despite the default selection being “annual plan” the very light grey and thin “/mo” on a black ground indicates they are still per month, but you get 20% discount with the annual plans).
Maybe I will upgrade in the future; that depends on how well this went:
- Unlimited phone calls
- 30 second checks
- 50 monitors
- Single-user account
- $80/month or $768/year – Small team
- Everything in Freelancer
- Up to 5 team members
- 100 monitors
- On-call scheduling
- 200+ integrations
- $150/month or$1440/year – Business
- Everything in Small Team
- Priority support
- Unlimited monitors
- 5 members per team included
- +$39/month or +$288/year for additional team members
For now:
- they do better marketing than UptimeRobot
- their web-UI looks much more pleasant than UptimeRobot
- unlike UptimeRobot, they do check TLS certificates for free (with an optional warning period as a configurable number of days before/after TLS expiration)
- unlike UptimeRobot, I could not find out how to setup ping/ports in the free plan (this is dead easy with UptimeRobot); I’ll probably need to read deeper into [Wayback/Archive] Monitor types – Better Uptime first.
- unlike UptimeRobot there seem to be monitoring of jobs (like cron, backups, and others).
Marketing example: [Wayback/Archive] Better Uptime on Twitter: “Monitor HTTP(s), Ping, Ports, SSL & TLD 📡 Get unlimited phone call, SMS, Slack & MS Teams alerts ⚠️ Receive screenshots & error logs 🔎 Schedule on-call duties 📞 Get branded status page 🗺” / Twitter
Oh: if you do not get any email after [Wayback/Archive] Check your email | Better Uptime, then wait a while. I had a hick-up a few years back and at a later stage it worked fine:
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@BetterUptime what are the IP addresses of your outgoing SMTP servers used during the sign-up process? I tried to do a sign-up but didn’t see connection attempts (outside IP addresses blocked by @SpamCop_net) so wonder what to look for in our incoming SMTP log files.”
- [Wayback/Archive] Better Uptime on Twitter: “@jpluimers @SpamCop_net Hey Jeroen! We use AWS SES for outgoing emails. Please feel free to email us directly at hello@betteruptime.com if there’s anything else we can help with!”
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@BetterUptime @SpamCop_net Not sure what happened back then and, due to a lot of backlog items suddenly coming in, it took me a while to re-apply. This time everything went fine. From the mail server logs:
Received: from http://e230-74.smtp-out.amazonses.com (http://e230-74.smtp-out.amazonses.com [23.251.230.74])“ - [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@BetterUptime @SpamCop_net I’ll be testing it with the systems at home and at home of my mentally retarded brother so will keep it at a free account for now. Web UI looks promising, so will at least blog about it later and maybe upgrade to another plan in the future.”
–jeroen
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