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TailScale StatusCakeBusinesses of all sizes that need to ensure their websites are operational and performing well, IT professionals who require detailed monitoring and alerts, and anyone looking for a cost-effective and reliable monitoring solution with customizable features.
They make the already great wireguard even better! Installation and configuration is a breeze, can easily connect to machines behind firewall(s) without altering anything.
Definitely made life easier.
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Tailscale + exit node for clean IP rotation. - Source: dev.to / 15 days ago
Tailscale is how every machine in the stack is reachable from outside the local network. All four machines are on the same Tailnet, which means I can reach any service from anywhere without opening ports or maintaining a VPN server. - Source: dev.to / 28 days ago
Still the most reliable setup, honestly. SSH into your machine over Tailscale (or Mosh if your connection is rubbish), reattach your tmux session, carry on. Free, works everywhere, been around forever. The downside is it's all terminal and you need to know your way around. Not exactly mobile-friendly either. Typing SSH commands on a phone keyboard is proper painful. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
The entire system runs on three machines connected via Tailscale mesh VPN:. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
ClickHouse's BYOC also uses an outbound-only channel for management traffic. Control-plane connectivity from the ClickHouse VPC to the customer's BYOC VPC is provided over a Tailscale connection that is outbound-only from the customer's BYOC VPC. ClickHouse engineers must request time-bound, audited access through an internal approval system; they can only reach system tables and infrastructure components, never... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
Statuscake.com if you just need a simple up/down monitor. Source: about 4 years ago
I've had a great time with statuscake.com for my personal and friends sites. They've even improved custom status pages to include an automatically signed certificate too, so you can make a site like status.yourdomain.com... Test TCP connection, specific HTTP/HTTPS query etc. 5 minute intervals for free, more with paid plans. Source: over 4 years ago
I use statuscake.com for external stuff and nagios for internal. PRTG is good too. Source: over 4 years ago
I use statuscake.com for all my personal / friend sites. There seems to be no limit to number of sites to monitor for basic 5 minute intervals in the free account. Source: over 4 years ago
I use noip.com for a free domain name and a free plan on statuscake.com for this setup. Source: about 5 years ago
ZeroTier - Extremely simple P2P Encrypted VPN
UptimeRobot - Free Website Uptime Monitoring
ngrok - ngrok enables secure introspectable tunnels to localhost webhook development tool and debugging tool.
Pingdom - With website monitoring from Pingdom you will be the first to know when your website is down. No installation required. 30-day free trial.
Netmaker - Netmaker automates mesh VPN's and software-defined networks using WireGuard.
Uptime Kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool.