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updown.io
Byupdown.ioupdown.io

updown.io

#49in Monitoring
Discussions2
Followers44
OverviewDiscussions2AdoptionAlternativesIntegrations
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What is updown.io?

updown is an online service that checks your website's status by periodically sending an HTTP HEAD request to the URL of your choice. It then notifies you by email or sms when your website is not responding correctly.

updown.io is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.

Key Features

One-click sign inFast checksEmail/SMS alertsOnline reportsAccepts bitcoinAPISSL Testing

updown.io Pros & Cons

Pros of updown.io

  • ✓Nice and clean UI
  • ✓Cheaper
  • ✓Super easy setup
  • ✓Better than pingdom
  • ✓Great support
  • ✓Ridiculously simple pricing
  • ✓SSL certificate checks

Cons of updown.io

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updown.io Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to updown.io?

Pingdom

Pingdom

Pingdom is an uptime monitoring service. When problems happen with a site that Pingdom monitors, it immediately alerts the owner so the problem can be taken care of.

UptimeRobot

UptimeRobot

It is all about helping you to keep your websites up. It monitors your websites every 5 minutes and alerts you if your sites are down.

Better Stack

Better Stack

Better Stack is a radically better infrastructure monitoring platform that calls the right person on your team if anything goes wrong. Schedule on-call duties, receive helpful alerts, and collaborate on solving incidents faster than ever.

StatusCake

StatusCake

Monitoring a website is one thing – finding the best way to alert you to downtime another. At StatusCake we give you as many options as possible to decide when & how often you’re contacted. Whether it’s by email, SMS, push notifications for iOS & Android or integration with third party apps including Zapier and PagerDuty – you decide how you want to be alerted and when!

Site24x7

Site24x7

Site24x7 is an all-in-one monitoring solution that allows you to monitor every part of your IT infrastructure from Websites to Applications, to Servers (both on-premise and on the cloud) as well as your Network infrastructure.

Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma

It is a self-hosted, open-source, fancy uptime monitoring, and alerting system. It can monitor HTTP, HTTP with keywords, TCP, Ping, and even DNS systems!

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updown.io Integrations

Nexmo, Slack, Hund, Statuspal, Zulip are some of the popular tools that integrate with updown.io. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with updown.io.

Nexmo
Nexmo
Slack
Slack
Hund
Hund
Statuspal
Statuspal
Zulip
Zulip

updown.io Discussions

Discover why developers choose updown.io. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Adrien Rey-Jarthon
Adrien Rey-Jarthon

Founder at updown.io

Nov 27, 2018

Needs adviceonStripeStripePayPalPayPalupdown.ioupdown.io

To accept #payments on updown.io, we first added support for Stripe which is by far the most popular payment gateway for startups and for a good reason. Their service is of awesome quality: the UI is gorgeous, the integration is easy, the documentation is great, the API is super stable and well thought. I can't recommend it enough.

We then added support for PayPal which is pretty popular for people who have money on it and don't know where to spend it (it can make it feel like you're spending less when it comes from PayPal wallet), or for people who prefer not to enter a credit card on a new website. This was pretty well received and we're currently receiving about 25% of our purchases from PayPal. The documentation and integration is much more painful than with Stripe IMO, I can't recommend them for that, but not having it is basically dodging potential sales.

Finally we more recently added support of BitPay for #Bitcoin and #BitcoinCash payments, which was a pretty easy process but not worth the time in the end due to the low usage and the always changing conditions of the network: the transaction fees got huge after price raise and bitcoin because unusable for small payments, they then introduced support for BCH and a newer Bitcoin protocol for lower fees, but then you need a special wallet to pay and in the end it's too cumbersome, even for bitcoin users, to pay with it. I think unless you expect a bit number of payments using cryptocurrencies it's not worth implementing this solution, and better to accept them manually.

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Adrien Rey-Jarthon
Adrien Rey-Jarthon

Founder at updown.io

Nov 27, 2018

Needs adviceonRailsRailsMongoDBMongoDBupdown.ioupdown.io

I chose Rails and MongoDB to build updown.io because it's very convenient and already in my skill set. This allows me to save on development and research time. The schema-less design of MongoDB allows for easier migrations and the replicaset feature for easier ops.

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