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 […]

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 […]