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I would like to ask the author about pricing:

If I create 20 monitors at a rate of 10 minutes I only pay $1.00 + $1.04 / mo

How do you create a sustainable product that you can realistic maintain when you've to pay taxes, hosting, etc. at this price?

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This pricing is actually not that far-fetched. Consider that the competitor UptimeRobot offer 50 monitors at 5 minutes interval for free.

You can lease servers very cheaply nowadays, uptime monitoring is not resource-intensive and is an easily distributed workload. The most expensive part of the operation is likely to store the monitor results in a database.

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