UptimeRobot raised their price 4 . I built an alternative.

I got hit by a 4× price hike – so I built my own uptime monitor In July 2025, my monitoring bill went from $8 → $34/month . Same service. Same monitors. Just… 4× the price. I was running a handful of side projects (5–10 apps), nothing crazy. But suddenly monitoring became one of my biggest recurring costs. That forced a decision: Pay it (and accept the new normal) Cut monitoring (not great…) Or build something myself I chose option 3. What I actually needed (and probably you too) When I looked a