Uptime Kuma, hosted: the checks you love without the ops
Uptime Kuma is a fantastic open-source project — and if you enjoy running a VPS, applying updates and wiring alert providers, it can cost you nothing but time. SiteFlux is the hosted answer to the same problem: multi-location checks, 11+ monitor types, and alerts that already work, from €2.99/month.
Hosted: 20 monitors, 2 check locations, zero maintenance
Self-hosted: your VPS, your updates, your uptime
Feature-by-feature comparison
What you take on with self-hosting — and what a hosted plan takes off your plate.
| Feature | SiteFlux | Uptime Kuma |
|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | €2.99+/mo | Free + VPS costs |
| Server, updates, backups | Managed for you | You own them |
| Monitoring your monitor | Included | Manual / extra setup |
| Multiple check locations out of the box | Run multiple instances | |
| Outage verification from 2+ locations | ||
| Public status page | ||
| Status page on your own domain | Hosted by us | Self-hosted |
| Email alerts | Configure SMTP | |
| Telegram, Slack, SMS alerts | Configure providers | |
| Automated phone call alerts | From €29.99/mo | |
| Agentless SSH server metrics | ||
| SEO monitoring | ||
| E-commerce flow checks | ||
| Data export (CSV) |
Uptime Kuma is open-source and free; the comparison above is about the total cost of running monitoring reliably, not the license.
Why teams choose SiteFlux over Uptime Kuma
Your monitor can't monitor itself
A self-hosted uptime tool going down is the quietest failure in infrastructure: no alerts arrive because the alerter is what failed. Hosted monitoring runs on redundant, distributed infrastructure you don't have to babysit.
Genuinely multi-location
Every paid plan checks from multiple independent regions and confirms outages from at least two of them before paging you. Reproducing that with Kuma means running and syncing instances in several data centers.
Alerts that work out of the box
Email, Telegram, Slack, SMS, webhooks and automated phone calls are already wired. No SMTP relay to wrangle, no provider accounts to connect, no tokens to babysit.
Frequently asked questions
Why pay when Uptime Kuma is free?+
Because 'free' self-hosting costs a VPS, updates, backups, and the risk of silent failure. If monitoring a hobby project from one location is fine, Kuma is great. If your sites pay your bills, €2.99–9.99/month for hosted multi-location monitoring is cheap insurance.
Can I keep my existing status page URL?+
Status pages support custom domains on Business and above, so you can point your existing status subdomain at SiteFlux and keep the URL your users already know.
Is my data locked in?+
No. Checks, uptime history and incidents export to CSV at any time, and deleting a monitor or your account removes the data for good.
Do you support the same monitor types?+
SiteFlux covers HTTP(S), keyword, SSL, ping, TCP, DNS, SMTP, FTP, SSH server metrics (Linux and Windows), on-page SEO, crawlability, performance and e-commerce cart/checkout flows.