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How do you manage and monitor your VPS?

As my VPS count increases I've started to look for a way to monitor and manage them. Not worried about uptime montiors, I'm curious how others are:

  • Tracking CPU,RAM,and Disk
  • Patching
  • Monitoring/running backups

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  • Hetrixtool

  • Tracking CPU,RAM,and Disk: Check email if the provider warn me.
    Patching: I dont know what are you talking about. Never patch.
    Monitoring/running backups: Yolo! Seriously, data loss does happen from time to time, usually because my backup scripts fail to work... No such resource to keep tracking backup. Let it go :)

  • @add_iT said:
    Hetrixtool

    What about patching?

  • SpinupWP for WP sites
    RunCloud for a few bigger projects
    Swizzin (Free) for Plex/media

    Backblaze and Wasabi for storage/backups.

    My employer pays for everything above. If that wasn't the case I would pick HestiaCP or something like Cloudways.

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  • Hetrixtool and Zabbix.

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  • For monitoring I'm very happy with Hetrixtools

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  • @MGarbis said:
    Hetrixtool and Zabbix.

    Do you use both together? Seems like Zabbix could do everything Hetrixtools does.

  • @pointgod said:
    What about patching?

    yum-cron / dnf-automatic set to email me has always been fine, I can see issues when they happen to resolve manually. What kind of monitoring/management are you looking for here? Feels like you need to get a lot more specific about your servers, suggestions will probably vary by OS at minimum.

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  • umzakumzak Member

    if you have a lot of vps, u can use Runcloud, $12.5/month for annually paid

  • @pointgod said:

    @MGarbis said:
    Hetrixtool and Zabbix.

    Do you use both together? Seems like Zabbix could do everything Hetrixtools does.

    Nope. I wanted to try Zabbix selfhosted. That's why it's monitoring one VPS.
    Hetrixtool is simple and easy setup so it's in "normal use".
    I think it's good to know how your servers are working and get alarms if they are down. Even if you are running servers for a personal use only.

  • @bakageta said:
    What kind of monitoring/management are you looking for here? Feels like you need to get a lot more specific about your servers, suggestions will probably vary by OS at minimum.

    That's a fair point. I'm mostly looking at Debian/Ubuntu with different selfhosted projects like n8n and owncloud. The responses I've gotten have been helpful.

  • Monitoring: LibreNMS
    Patching: Ansible playbooks
    Backups: Depending on the data... Proxmox native/Borg/rclone scripts.

  • Zabbix for monitoring.
    Ansible playbooks for patching.
    Borg for backups.

  • nfnnfn Veteran

    Monitoring: HetrixTools
    Backup: restic + rsync.net and rclone + backblaze b2
    Cluster Failover: HetrixTools Webhook + Cloudflare API

  • ArkasArkas Moderator

    I think HetrixTools is a main component in monitoring. Once a week, or maybe every 2 weeks I run updates.

  • For personnal
    Managing: Ansible
    Monitoring: HetrixTools, NetData, healthchecks.io, some personnal script with webhooks to PushOver and Discord
    Backup: Duplicacy (with S3 backends), BorgBackup

    For professionnal
    Managing: AWS CloudFormation, Terraform
    Monitoring: ELK, promstack, CloudWatch
    Backup: AWS Backup, AWS S3

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