[HN Gopher] Show HN: Server Uptime
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Show HN: Server Uptime
Author : dIsK
Score : 16 points
Date : 2024-09-15 16:38 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (server-uptime.pw)
(TXT) w3m dump (server-uptime.pw)
| freitzzz wrote:
| Funny. Server Uptime but the host isn't reachable
| rc_kas wrote:
| you should probably open source this one.
| codetrotter wrote:
| The tool that they tell you to install is
| https://github.com/rpodgorny/uptimed which is open source
|
| Are you asking the owner of this website that takes data
| submitted by users to open source the website? Or are you
| talking about the above-mentioned program you have to run,
| which is already open source?
| rozenmd wrote:
| As a fellow uptime monitoring vendor I couldn't figure out what
| this does - an explainer paragraph would do wonders
| bubblesnort wrote:
| The explanation is right there on the page.
| johannes1234321 wrote:
| The page explains how to send some data collected by some
| program to some host, but not what exactly that data is
| (uptime duration only or also load information or identifying
| information?) for what purpose and what that server does with
| it.
| iforgotpassword wrote:
| Reminds me of the long-dead uptime-project.net
|
| On their leaderboard there was an NT4.0 machine with several
| years of uptime. People accused the owner of having manipulated
| the reporting tool, but the owner said it was just being used as
| a secondary DNS server internally at a company, and scheduled to
| be replaced as soon as the hardware fails. I don't know whether
| that happened before the site shut down unfortunately.
| donatj wrote:
| I 100% believe it. I had a Windows 2000 smb/file server run for
| over 3 years uninterrupted until there was a power outage.
| Gys wrote:
| Why would I send the uptime to a remote server?
| putna wrote:
| i wonder if 'finger' and '.plan' files can be used for uptime
| monitoring in similar fashion
| johnklos wrote:
| Ah - it's a project that's _only_ for computers that use apt, and
| probably _only_ amd64. How uninteresting.
| codetrotter wrote:
| https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/uptimed
|
| The uptimed package they told you to install also exists on for
| example FreeBSD. And from the table it looks to be available on
| platforms like aarch64 (64-bit ARM), and powerpc too.
| (Unsurprisingly, given the very straightforward-to-implement
| thing it does.)
|
| So to answer your statement: No, and no.
|
| And all the program does is keep track of the highest uptime
| your system has ever had. And the website takes these records
| from users, and presents the submitted data online.
|
| I dont think the website is even made by the same people,
| probably.
|
| https://github.com/rpodgorny/uptimed for the uptime max stuff
| that runs on your machine, and all this website asks you to do
| is to submit your high scores from that other tool.
| johnklos wrote:
| Thank you. This makes much more sense.
|
| Whoever made that page should've had some better information.
| progbits wrote:
| Are long uptimes still a thing? Both at home and in production at
| work I instead strive for regular updates and restarts.
| stackskipton wrote:
| I would imagine not anymore. I generally see them as a sign of
| serious tech debt at this point.
| rossant wrote:
| This one is great: https://healthchecks.io/
| theideaofcoffee wrote:
| Second healthchecksio. Used them recently for a quick project
| that "just" needed status monitoring for cron tasks. Super
| simple to drop a curl equivalent at the start and end and
| important moments in the middle. Do one thing well, yadda
| yadda. This one seems pretty similar in scope to hcio where you
| can also send simple (simple!) payloads like this project as
| well.
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