Uptime Kuma is an excellent free server monitoring system. I needed it running on EC2 – a fairly straightforward install from source as long as you have all the right pieces of the puzzle – which include the process manager for nodejs: cd ~ec2-usersudo dnf install -y gitsudo dnf install nodejsgit clone https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma.gitcd uptime-kumanpm run […]

This is an update to the original 2020 benchmarks post with a new Provider Contabo (the only slight difference is that this provider is based in Postsmouth in the UK, everyone else on the list has a London presence) and also DigitalOcean’s new option for Premium processor and storage, which yields much better results. The […]

I recently needed to have a look at moving some services to a different VPS provider for redundancy so I decided to benchmark my options to compare them. The plan selected was whichever had 16GB of RAM (though Google is 15GB). The selected datacenter was always London (Azure only says UK South). The fastest storage […]