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Pingdom recently increased the price of the starting plan from $10 to $14. Since they didn’t keep the price for older customers, I decided to create something to replace it, because the new pricing is just too much for my personal sites. This article shows how you can set up your own uptime checker and run it on Heroku for $7/month. About uptime_checker I created uptime_checker, which has less than 500 lines. The main features are: Several notification mechanisms (Telegram, Twitter’s Direct Mes...