VPS Fleet Watchdog

A hosted monitoring panel for small VPS fleets with outbound-only agents and auto-recovery

Problem

Developers running several small VPS boxes juggle scattered monitoring tools and have to build their own way to see disk, load and service status in one place. Low-power devices like an ESP32 that need to reach an internal network or remotely recover a NAS or PC when it goes down have no ready-made option, so when a host is unreachable they just wait.

Solution

A hosted panel plus a lightweight outbound-only agent: any machine that can reach the internet can report status with no inbound ports. It shows CPU, disk, process and service health, triggers restart or recovery scripts when something goes down, and guides configuration for IoT gateway firmware on devices that cannot run a VPN client.

Users

Indie developers with 2-20 VPS boxes, small ops teams, home NAS enthusiasts

MVP

An outbound-only collection agent; a hosted panel listing hosts and key metrics; service-down alerts with one-click restart scripts; a flashing guide and config generator for ESP32 gateway firmware; skip complex APM

Revenue

Subscription per host with three free; open-source gateway firmware with a paid cloud panel; a pro tier with multi-user access and alert channels

Why now

More developers build personal infrastructure on cheap VPS and self-hosted devices, while traditional monitoring is either too heavy or requires inbound ports, leaving a clear gap for a lightweight outbound approach