Can you share a un-minified version of this? I would love to see how you are using the animate lib to do this. Using a beautifier is still to hard to read for me :/
Are you using a remote VM or are you running it local? I'm using a decent MacBook Pro (2014) with 8GB of RAM, but running an Ubuntu with VirtualBox is performant enough to work in it. Or are you just ssh'ing into your VM ?
Interesting project! Can you tell a bit more about cronitor.io? Is this a side project or a full time project? How many users are using your service? 100, 1000, 10000 ?