Uptime monitoring — what do you use?

Moving from shared hosting to a VPS was the best decision for my sites.

I put every site behind the same free CDN tier and forgot about DDoS worries.

Learned the hard way that an untested backup is a Schrödinger backup.

Any tips, experiences or strong opinions welcome.

Same registrar here, never had a problem in six years.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Bumping this because I ran into the same thing today.

Same registrar here, never had a problem in six years.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

That has been my experience as well.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

A simple rsync cron is my entire backup strategy and I sleep fine.

Could not agree more.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Good point, I had not thought of it that way.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.