I received the following email from info@m.uptime-monitor.io, claiming that the free plan of UptimeRobot will be discontinued on March 23, 2026 and that I should switch to a paid plan at uptime-monitor.io.

Sender email address: UptimeRobot [Uptime Monitor] (info@m.uptime-monitor.io)

Dear Uptime Monitor user,

Thank you for being part of the Uptime Monitor community. We truly appreciate your trust in our service.

We're reaching out to let you know that we will be transitioning away from the free plan. Your monitors will continue working as usual until March 23, 2026.

To continue monitoring after that date, you can select a paid plan at:
https://uptime-monitor.io/dashboard/billing

Plans start at $4.95/month for up to 10 monitors, and we offer a 7-day free trial so you can try it out first.

If you have any questions or need help choosing a plan, simply reply to this email — we're happy to help.

Thank you for using Uptime Monitor!

This already looked suspicious to me because:

• The sender domain is m.uptime-monitor.io
• The website uptime-monitor.io looks generic and somewhat AI-generated
• I have not seen any official announcement about discontinuing the free plan

To verify this, I contacted the chatbot on the official website of UptimeRobot. The response I received was:

“That email did not come from us. The domain ‘uptime-monitor.io’ is not associated with UptimeRobot - this appears to be a fraudulent email attempting to impersonate our service.
Our official domain is uptimerobot.com and our legitimate emails come from @uptimerobot.com addresses. We have no plans to discontinue our free service.
Please do not click any links or provide any information to that suspicious sender. We recommend marking it as spam and deleting it.
Our free plan remains available with 50 monitors and we continue to support it alongside our paid plans.”

I have just discovered something much more concerning: I was able to log in at uptime-monitor.io using my actual UptimeRobot credentials.

This makes me seriously worried that I may have fallen into a credential harvesting / phishing trap. If this site is not officially affiliated with UptimeRobot, then it appears to be actively collecting real user login data.

If anyone else received this email, please be extremely careful and do not attempt to log in there.

At this point, I strongly recommend that affected users immediately change their passwords on the official UptimeRobot website and enable additional security measures if available.

So this strongly suggests that the email is a phishing attempt.

I’m posting this here to ask:

• Has anyone else received this email?
• Has anyone investigated uptime-monitor.io further?

Please be careful and do not click any links in that message.

Thanks. Greetings, Andy

Hello Customer,

We’re retiring Freshping and want to help you plan your next steps.

Key dates
✅ Free plan access ends: March 6, 2026
✅ Final renewals available until: March 6, 2026
✅ Data retention: 90 days after shutdown, then permanently deleted

What to do next
* Log in to your account: Review the in-app banner for timelines and reminders.
* Export important data: Download logs, configurations, and other key information before the shutdown date.
* Explore alternatives: We recommend evaluating other monitoring solutions to avoid service interruptions.

Account access
* Free plan users: You can use Freshping as usual until March 6, 2026.
* Paid plan users: You’ll retain full access until your subscription ends.

Renewals and data
* No renewals after March 6, 2026.
* Plan changes (monthly ↔ yearly) won’t be available.
* Data will remain securely stored for 90 days after shutdown to allow final exports, then deleted permanently.

Need help?

Our support team can assist you throughout this transition. Contact us at support.freshping@freshworks.com.

Thank you for using Freshping. We appreciate your partnership and will do our best to make this transition smooth.

Thank you,
The Freshping Team

If you manage domains across multiple registrars, you probably know the pain 😅
Missed renewals, broken DNS, email issues, or something going down without you noticing.

That’s what we’re building Aepto for.

🌐 Website: https://aepto.com
🎥 Overview video:

(The video gives a quick visual overview of what Aepto does and how it works.)

What Aepto is 🧠

Aepto is a single platform to centralize monitoring and management of your domains, DNS, email, and infrastructure, regardless of where they are registered or hosted.

You add a domain and Aepto automatically scans publicly available data.
❌ No APIs
❌ No account connections
❌ No provider restrictions

If something is detected incorrectly (for example with resellers or custom setups), you can manually override it.

What you can do with Aepto ⚙️

Domains & DNS 🌍
- Centralized domain management
- Continuous DNS monitoring (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
- Alerts when records change or go missing
- Fully customizable renewal reminders

Email & Deliverability 📧
- Email configuration analysis
- Detects issues that can impact deliverability

Costs & Organization 💰
- Track domain-related expenses
- Assign ROI per domain
- Folder-based organization
- Custom pricing overrides (not locked to platform pricing)

Security 🔐
- Nameserver change monitoring
- Domain lock change alerts (theft guard)

Infrastructure & Uptime ⏱️
- Monitor domains, subdomains, APIs, IPs, and ports
- Distributed uptime checks from multiple regions
- AI-assisted downtime analysis (e.g. DB issues, hacks, misconfigurations)

Status Pages 🧾
- Public status pages
- Custom domain support
- White-label
- Multiple modern templates
- Incidents and maintenance support

Domain Tools 🧩
- AI-powered domain discovery (ideas and keywords)
- Availability checks
- Domain watch for domains you don’t own yet (expiry tracking)

Notifications 🔔
- Advanced contact system
- Full control over who receives which alerts
- Alerts clearly show which registrar or service provider is involved

Public Beta & Free Subscription 🎁

Everyone starts on the Free plan.

We’re upgrading users based on real usage and feedback:

• Sign up on the Free plan
• Report bugs and share feedback
• 5 active testers → upgraded to Starter plan (1 year free)
• Continue providing feedback
• 2 active testers → upgraded to Professional plan (1 year free)

No payment information required.
Upgrades are based purely on activity and feedback quality.

Discord & Reporting 🛠️

Discord is important for the beta.

Join here: https://discord.gg/7Br7j2j2xG

Steps:
1. Sign up on Aepto first
2. Join the Discord
3. DM @Lampard on Discord with your Aepto registered email
4. You’ll receive the beta role to access bug reporting and feedback channels

⚠️ Security-related issues must only be reported via a support ticket on Aepto, not in Discord.

Additional note

Aepto is a product by Limitless Hosting, and is being actively developed as part of our broader infrastructure and monitoring ecosystem.

This is an early beta ⚠️
Some detections rely on public data and may not always be perfect, but everything is editable and improvements are shipping quickly.

Thanks 🙌

Email from UptimeRobot:

My question to you is, do you know of any alternatives I can use that are free?

I was using a custom script to monitor my server's uptime. It would monitor the ports listed and send me a message on Telegram (using bot API) if any of those goes down or comes back online.

Up until recently, it was mostly working fine until I updated the script, upon which the script stopped working partially. It will monitor uptime but no longer send me notifications if something goes offline or comes back online. It still sends notifications regarding the health status.

Ah, did I mention that I deleted the original backup (that I made before the modification) from the server during a previous cleanup? Anyway, I do not have enough time to fix the script and was looking for a simple opensource script/project that can do the same.

Requirements:

1. Monitor uptime for ports and websites
2. Send message via telegram if something goes down or comes back up
3. Send a daily telegram message with the uptime status + monitor duration
4. (optional) Monitor latency
5. (optional) Does not require docker or nodejs
6. (optional) PHP or python based script

If you guys know of such a project/script, do let me know.

PS. I am NOT looking for a public service that does the same, unless I can self host it. Many of the servers that require monitoring are on local network without publicly open ports and I would like to keep it the same.

For those who do not have time to read the full thread, here are the scripts being discussed here:

@msatt recommended: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/wiki

@Asim recommended: https://hub.docker.com/r/jasonrivers/nagios

@Mason recommended: https://www.librenms.org/ | https://github.com/librenms/librenms

@AuroraZero recommended: https://github.com/bderenzo/tinystatus

@iandk's custom solution: https://github.com/iandk/pymon

A couple of days ago some random surfing led me to similar sites, and I started writing a post on my blog about the uptime monitoring services. I came across several 'lists' from posts by KeyCDN, and other sites. Posting some of them here.

The below list includes Free, Freemium and paid services. With time, I will update and classify these services into these three categories, similar to the way I had done in my blog post on Webpage Builders.
As always,

• Suggestions to the list welcome and appreciated.
• If you have used any of the services in the list other than the "LE* favourites", please mention your feedback about them in the comments.

The Big List of Website Monitoring Services

(Posting in random order)

*Types: Free, Freemium, Premium.
Note - 1. for sake of simplicity, paid-only plans are tagged as premium. This category may be updated at a later time
2. I am not a fan of classifying services based on price alone. But in the LE world, that could be used as a filter or starting point.

p.s: Link to my blog post I was referring to

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Hello LES!
First time posting a giveaway here, so hopefully it's in the right category.

This promo is very simple and it won’t cost you anything. You’re going to get some free extra monitors added to your account, regardless of your package (free or paid).

Giving away:
+ 16 extra Blacklist Monitors
+ 5 extra Uptime Monitors / Server Monitors

These extra monitors get added to your account for free, no matter on which package you are currently on, and will remain with your account through package upgrades and downgrades forever.

So, assuming you’re on our Free packages, you’d be getting:

Blacklist Monitoring:

• 32 48 Blacklist Monitors
• 125+ RBLs
• 24 hours checkup frequency
  See all features on our Blacklist Monitoring Pricing Page:
  https://hetrixtools.com/pricing/blacklist-monitor/

Uptime Monitoring:

• 10 15 Uptime Monitors (monitor the uptime status of your website,server,services,etc)
• 10 15 Server Monitors (monitor your server resources and configure alerts for high usage)
• 1 minute check frequency
• Select 4 out of 12 monitoring locations
• Domain expiration monitor, SSL expiration monitor, nameservers change detection, etc.
  See all features on our Uptime Monitoring Pricing Page:
  https://hetrixtools.com/pricing/uptime-monitor/

Included in all packages:
- Private/Public Uptime Reports
- White Label Reports
- Bulk Reports (Public Status Page)
- Account Activity required for free accounts
- Notifications via Email, SMS, PushBullet, Pushover, Twitter, Slack, Discord, Mattermost, RocketChat, PagerDuty, Telegram, VictorOps, and Webhooks
- All features are included on the pricing pages linked above

How to obtain this offer:
1. Register for a free HetrixTools account (if you don’t already have one)
2. Reply in this thread with your account’s Public Key, found here https://hetrix.tools/public-key
3. Your account will be manually upgraded to the double free package (within 24hrs)

Promo Notes:
- any type of account can participate (free and paid alike)
- this promo will stack with any previous giveaway
- valid only for the first 20 keys or until 29 February, whichever comes first

Please allow up to 24 hours for your account to be upgraded, after posting your key.
There is no need to open a support ticket about this promo upgrade.

Thanks for taking the time to read this promo post.
Cheers.