Title. I was willing to pay 8$ a month for a direct ping with a discord webhook when something exploded on my server so I could quickly fix the one service I remotely care about, but I received an email at 4am stating that my plan is getting an "update" and is now 13$ a month (but I can save 1$ a month if I get the annual plan!).

96$ a year to $156 (62.5%, or 50% if you pay $144 a year) is an insane increase when the only things you have to say you improved is a couple of services integrations maybe 4 people worldwide use, and that you "rebuilt your dashboard and apps" and "made an MCP server" (things I'd expect you to do with the money I already pay you).

I'm so fucking tired of every company deciding that their shareholders deserve more so they squeeze the lowest tiers like we're swimming in capital and offering jack shit in return.

Is there a decent replacement for this slop, I literally just need something that pings my frontend/API, can fire a Discord webhook on a failure, and has a decent looking status page? Or is it just cheaper to rent a VPS, point it myself and home cook this thing.