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updown.io
Company blog · updown.io/blog · on HN as adrienjarthonprogrammingweb
updown.io is the company blog at updown.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2014, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Show HN: Updown.io, a simple and cheap website monitoring service”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mention updown.io as an uptime and SSL-expiry monitoring service for websites, status pages and cron jobs. Several commenters recommend it as good value with a generous free tier.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
ϟ Website monitoring — beautiful, simple and inexpensive.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Updown.io, a simple and cheap website monitoring service9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-12-07
- UpDown – Insanely simple and almost free website monitoring5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-04-18
- The performance improvements in Ruby 3.3 with YJIT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-17
What Hacker News says?
Or use a service like https://updown.io/ (I host my status page there).
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on “Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues”Submitted The funny rules of SpamAssassin in 2023 as a story · 230 points
HN discussionI run https://updown.io since 2012, a website monitoring service I created. I'm working about 5-10 hours per week on it. It makes about $6,000 per month and is still growing linearly. I also keep a full-time job alongside for now as an engineering manager. The key for me is to take time, make something useful, delight your clients, and don't try to become uber or airbnb.
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on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”Submitted Show HN: Updown.io, a simple and cheap website monitoring service as a story · 38 points
HN discussionI've started using `serveo.net` to monitor my internet uptime (Raspberry Pi with a simple webserver, [updown.io]( https://updown.io ) to request it via [serveo.net]( https://serveo.net) ) but they were unavailable/offline for ~4 days within the last 10 days.
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on “Stripe CLI”Submitted The performance improvements in Ruby 3.3 with YJIT as a story · 4 points
HN discussionupdown.io https://updown.io/ has a pretty generous free tier and (in addition to checking if your service is up) sends you a warning when a cert is expiring within 14 days
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on “Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate”Submitted Updown.io – Simple and inexpensive website monitoring as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI like monitored cgi shell script endpoints a lot, e.g. the one behind https://updown.io/44q5 is https://codeberg.org/mro/internet-radio-recorder/src/branch/...
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on “Monitoring tiny web services”Submitted The performance improvements in Ruby 3.3 with YJIT (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionupdown.io also has a relatively new feature called cron monitoring[0] that allows you to regularly check in to signal success. If there has been no check-in in a configured time it will alert you. For backups you could add a simple curl somewhere into your backup process to do just that. [0] https://updown.io/doc/how-pulse-cron-monitoring-works
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on “Monitoring My Homelab, Simply”Submitted UpDown – Insanely simple and almost free website monitoring as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSeeing the same, thanks. Looks like updown.io is having an issue with TLS. It also lives here if you wanted to take a look: https://updown.io/fj8q
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on “Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service”Submitted Udpown.io – Simple Website Monitoring as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://updown.io/ Best value of any tool I've ever used. It does literally everything you asked. I didn't even know it checked SSL expiry till it pinged me.
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on “Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?”Submitted Simple and Inexpensive Website Monitoring as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think about rate-limiting from an unprivileged user perspective and saw it first at https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli/blob/master/index.php#... . So e.g. fail2ban is not an option. And the application has to deal with it. I care more about load/DOS than actual crack success. What means the firewall is the sensible place. Not the application. Or just take the risk, make backup/restore simple and do intrusion de…
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on “Minisleep – A Tiny Wiki Engine”In a busy market, distribution is king. It's hard to get your name out there. Speaking of unknown players in this space, check out the wonderfully minimalistic updown.io. It's much cheaper than SP and really is quite good. Here's our dashboard: https://updown.io/szug
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on “Ask HN: Is it worth starting a SaaS in a niche that already has a clear leader?”https://updown.io/
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on “Show HN: IP Geolocation and Threat Data API”I will answer myself: https://updown.io I think I will use it in https://apility.io , a service that competes at some point with this.
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on “Show HN: IP Geolocation and Threat Data API”It's https://updown.io/
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on “Ask HN: Anyone interested in sharing our office space with us? Bangalore, India”I noticed on my server that the latest version of certbot (CLI tool for LetsEncrypt) broke my automatic renewal script. This happened after the snap did an unattended update. I had to replace the --webroot parameter with --nginx Luckily I had monitoring [1] in place to alert me beforehand 1. https://updown.io/
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on “Cmake.org SSL server certificate have expired”In case anyone finds this later: I've searched more, by looking at demo pages of popular status monitoring tools hoping to find GitHub, and I've found one such demo: https://updown.io/d043
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on “Ask HN: Is there a public 3rd party GitHub status monitor?”
