FOG Project Reviews

Better Uptime Reviews

1. Veronika Davies

   over 3 years ago
   Amazing Pingdom alternative!

   User friendly uptime monitoring tool with loads of easy to set up integrations. Definitely recommend!

   👍 Pros:    Easy to use|Slack and teams notification|Reliable
2. Hannah Lewis

   almost 4 years ago
   Great website monitoring service

   I like Better Uptime because it's very reliable and quickly responds to any downtime on my site.

FOG Project mentions (69)

• Ask HN: Cleanest way to manage Windows OS?

  I heard about devbox [1] but I haven't tried it yet. Perhaps it could suit your needs. Back in the day I used "Norton Ghost" to create a full image of a just-installed windows just in case I needed to go back in time. Windows includes a snapshot feature built-in but I did not really trusted it. These days you can use a "sysprep" tool [2] to create a similar system snapshot. Make a partition and keep everything you... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Have i made my own linux distro? ^_^

  For provisioning the machines base image consider FOG it uses PXE and can remotely provision dozens of machines using multicast. Source: 6 months ago

• New machines with bloatware.

  Same. We set up 1 device how we want to, then use FOG to clone the other devices. Source: 6 months ago

• How to : Proxmox Windows VM to discard changes after reboot

  With standard computers, I usually deploy something like the fog project and automate the process over pxe with scheduled reboots. I guess you could do that as well with your VMs but that seems overkill. Source: about 1 year ago

• Best procedure to run a small computer lab.

  You could setup a PXE server and automate installs. You could also clone them and reapply the image as needed. https://fogproject.org/ or lookup CloneZilla both are open source. Source: about 1 year ago

Better Uptime mentions (5)

• Uptime Monitoring

  I use https://betteruptime.com/ for all of my websites with various checks. You can do keyword checks, status error codes and get push notifications + phone calls if it is down for x number of time. Source: over 1 year ago

• Is there any way to get SMS notifications when Internet at our office goes off?

  For what you are needing, I would try BetterUptime. Source: over 2 years ago

• Plex Server Availability Status Page

  I am using https://betteruptime.com/ if it matters. Source: over 2 years ago

• AI devops squad to the rescue: How to use voice AI to make your site reliability engineering more efficient

  // external functions are called from your Dasha conversation in the body of main.dsl file // external functions can be used for calculations, data storage, in this case, to // call external services with HTTPS requests. You can call an external function from DSL // in your node.js file and have it do literally anything you can do with Node.js. // External function. Acknowledge an incident in... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• A Tour of Website Monitoring Tools

  Better Uptime, one of the newer alternatives, combines incident management and monitoring in one tool. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago