Monitoring my home network from a free Oracle VPS, without exposing anything
I wanted a status page that tells me when something at home goes down. Home Assistant, internal DNS, my Zigbee coordinator, all of it. And I wanted the checks to run from outside my network, because if the thing checking “is it up” is sitting on the same LAN, it’s not really telling you anything. Problem is, I didn’t want to port-forward anything into my home network to make that work. No way. ...