Let me guess...
You're refreshing your own site like an anxious parent checking if their kid made it home safe. Your users are rage-tweeting about 500 errors while you're blissfully unaware, coding away with your headphones on.
Sound familiar?
"Wait, the API has been down for 3 hours?"
"Why is our conversion rate tanking today?"
"When did this break? Yesterday? Last week??"
Stop playing Russian roulette with your uptime.
⚡ Meet ZeroToPing — Monitoring Without the Highway Robbery
I built ZeroToPing because every monitoring tool out there is either criminally expensive, frustratingly limited, or designed by people who clearly hate developers.
🎯 What It Actually Does (No Corporate BS)
- Monitors everything — websites, APIs, microservices, that sketchy third-party integration you depend on
- Actually useful free plan — not a glorified demo that expires in 14 days
- Clean, modern interface — built this decade, not during the Bush administration
- Real email alerts — when your site breaks, you'll know instantly
- Professional status pages — no ugly "Powered by" branding ruining your reputation
- Zero setup friction — start monitoring in under 60 seconds
💸 Pricing That Won't Bankrupt Your Startup
FREE Plan (Actually Generous)
- 5 monitors — perfect for side projects and MVPs
- 15-minute checks — catch issues before they become disasters
- 5 status pages — look professional even when bootstrapping
- Email alerts included — because monitoring without alerts is just data hoarding
- No credit card required — sign up and start monitoring immediately
PRO Plan ($1.99/mo — Seriously, Under Two Dollars)
- Unlimited monitors — monitor your entire digital empire
- 1-minute checks — near real-time monitoring
- Unlimited status pages — scale without arbitrary limits
- Zero branding — your pages, your brand
- All future features — webhooks, SMS alerts, custom domains
🤬 Why Every Popular Tool Is Hot Garbage
UptimeRobot? Free plan gives you 5-minute intervals but only if you sacrifice your firstborn. Want decent monitoring? $8/month for 10 monitors. TEN. Need 100 monitors? $34/month. It's like they're personally offended by your success.
Pingdom? $15/month minimum and the interface looks like it was designed by someone who learned web design from a 2005 WordPress theme. Plus they'll upsell you to death.
StatusPage by Atlassian? $29/month just to tell people your site is broken. That's more than most people pay for Netflix, Disney+, and Spotify combined. For a status page.
Site24x7? Tries to do everything, succeeds at nothing. You need a PhD in enterprise software just to set up basic monitoring.
Datadog? Great if you enjoy $500+/month bills and explaining to your CFO why monitoring costs more than your server infrastructure.
New Relic? "Observability" is just a fancy word for "we'll charge you $200/month for charts you'll never look at."
Better Stack (formerly Better Uptime)? Slick marketing, but $29/month for 10 monitors? Come on.
ZeroToPing? Built by a developer who got tired of this pricing insanity and just wanted monitoring that doesn't require a mortgage.
🎪 The "Oh Shit" Moment Every Founder Has
You launch on Product Hunt. Hit #1. Traffic explodes. Your $5/month VPS melts like butter in a microwave. You find out 4 hours later when your mom texts asking why your site won't load.
Don't be that founder.
💀 What Happens When You Skip Monitoring
- Revenue evaporates — every minute of downtime = money bleeding out
- SEO rankings tank — Google punishes unreliable sites harder than a disappointed parent
- Users never come back — first impressions are everything, and 500 errors aren't charming
- Reputation implodes — "unreliable" is startup cancer
- Sleep disappears — 3 AM anxiety refreshes become your new hobby
🚀 Start Monitoring in 60 Seconds (Actually)
- Go to zerotoping.com
- Sign up (no 47-field forms or enterprise questionnaires)
- Add your URLs
- Sleep better tonight
No credit card hostage situations. No sales calls from Brad in enterprise solutions. No free trials that auto-charge your card.
🎯 Perfect For
- Solo developers tired of enterprise tools built for 200-person DevOps teams
- Indie hackers who need professional monitoring without VC-funded pricing
- Small teams that want to spend money on features, not monitoring overhead
- Anyone who thinks paying $34+/month for uptime monitoring is absolutely deranged
🔗 Stop Getting Robbed by Monitoring Companies
Your bank account (and your sanity) will thank you.
P.S. — If you're paying more for monitoring than you pay for your actual servers, you're doing it wrong.
P.P.S. — I actually respond to feature requests and ship fast. Try getting that kind of attention from the enterprise giants charging you $500/month.
Drop your monitoring horror stories below 👇 — especially the pricing nightmares that made you question capitalism.
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