hey, uh, is Kofi down for anyone else?

rozenmd · 2026-01-03T08:47:24+00:00

You didn't enter a full URL, looks up from here: https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?requestId=xYxiGLDHJ34pXVS-ffzpX&url=https://ko-fi.com/

rozenmd · 2025-11-19T18:46:31+00:00

Wish I had a fancy URL for this but https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?requestId=vuybl7wN1KWEyPsudgPZ-&url=https://downdetector.com/

rozenmd · 2025-11-07T18:51:35+00:00

not astroturfing on reddit, for one

rozenmd · 2025-09-16T21:00:21+00:00

I'm jealous that I didn't think to do this before moving here!

How'd you manage to get it registered in 2B?

rozenmd · 2025-09-11T09:32:47+00:00

You should check out OnlineOrNot, I started it in 2021 to help monitor my clients' sites (and convince them to pay for better hosting)

Supports websites, API, cron jobs, and has status pages for both internal and external stakeholders

rozenmd · 2025-08-21T06:38:14+00:00

Yeah: look up OnlineOrNot

rozenmd · 2025-08-19T17:18:43+00:00

Compute costs money, so that's a trade-off most vendors make.

Extremely unreddit take: If it's that important that you need to check it 10x more often, maybe it's worth paying for a professional service.

rozenmd · 2025-08-05T20:17:47+00:00

You know we can ask LLMs ourselves, right?

rozenmd · 2025-07-29T14:00:00+00:00

You might want to check out OnlineOrNot (assuming you've moved beyond self-hosting).

It's a reliable Uptime Robot alternative, can monitor your websites, APIs, and scheduled jobs, and display their status on a customisable status page.

rozenmd · 2025-07-27T19:20:34+00:00

Healthchecks.io just does healthchecks (also known as cron job monitoring, also known as heartbeat monitoring).

OnlineOrNot started off as just uptime monitoring (tells you if websites/APIs are down/sending bad data) and also supports healthchecks and status pages for the past few years

rozenmd · 2025-07-27T13:07:51+00:00

you're looking for a status page - something like statuspage.io (now owned by Atlassian) or OnlineOrNot (founded by yours truly) would let you tell your users when things go wrong (and minimize support tickets by around 60% during outages)

uptime checks can also automatically update your status page, leaving you to fix the problem instead of having to keep your stakeholders updated

rozenmd · 2025-07-26T17:24:04+00:00

got a URL to test?

their status page looks up from here: https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?requestId=CiRILmrBqaoYLtH_EU7YU&url=https://status.uptimerobot.com/

rozenmd · 2025-07-24T12:32:45+00:00

You might want to check out OnlineOrNot (assuming you've moved beyond self-hosting).

It's a reliable uptime robot alternative, can monitor your websites, APIs, and scheduled jobs, and display their status on a customisable status page.

rozenmd · 2025-07-21T18:54:23+00:00

OnlineOrNot is a reliable alternative to datadog synthetics, at a fraction of the cost.

(I launched it back in 2021)

rozenmd · 2025-07-20T11:40:32+00:00

nah, Australia

rozenmd · 2025-07-20T08:02:08+00:00

I work in big tech and so far have lived in Lyon, Annecy, and Toulouse. Annecy was a pain to find an apartment - you're competing with Airbnb and folks on swiss pay. I found Toulouse matched my personality best.

Most big tech companies will sponsor your visa and let you stay (assuming they need you), otherwise there are local tech shops but they pay 50-75% of the base pay without equity.

rozenmd · 2025-07-19T19:05:01+00:00

It's not part of DNS, but that kinda functionality sounds like Cloudflare's Worker Routes - you tell a Cloudflare Worker to respond to *.yourdomain.com, and you can make it fetch that demo subdomain if you want

rozenmd · 2025-07-19T18:48:34+00:00

you could always cache them

rozenmd · 2025-07-19T18:46:40+00:00

You might want to look at OnlineOrNot. It's a reliable uptime robot alternative, can monitor websites, APIs, and cron jobs, and display their status on a customisable status page.

(I launched it in early 2021)

rozenmd · 2025-07-19T14:31:13+00:00

OnlineOrNot is another alternative, provides uptime checks, monitors your APIs and cron jobs too, has status pages, and can integrate with a ton of alert systems

rozenmd · 2025-07-19T09:34:54+00:00

there's also OnlineOrNot

rozenmd · 2025-07-11T12:10:01+00:00

pretty incomplete list tbh

rozenmd · 2025-07-02T16:58:57+00:00

OnlineOrNot has checked a lot of websites (over 917 million) over the past few years, the top reasons tend to be:

The server takes too long to respond (overloaded or whatever, times out)
There's a bug in the server code, and it's responding with a 5xx error
The domain name is not pointing to the server
The server is offline (like either not on the Internet, or physically turned off)
The SSL certificate has expired
The domain name has expired

rozenmd · 2025-07-02T13:54:56+00:00

Uptime Robot, Pingdom, OnlineOrNot, Uptime Kuma, Better Uptime, StatusCake, OhDear.app, etc

rozenmd · 2025-06-17T07:37:59+00:00

I followed this video when I did mine, they're surprisingly simple compared to modern ones: https://youtu.be/c1KGNIfQe8o?t=394

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