I use telegram for monitoring many services.... one botfather command, you get an api key and one curl command to send a message. Service restarted, server rebooted, low ram, low disk space, temperature too high, etc., everything comes to telegram.
"Back in the time" I would've used email for that, but if you don't run your own server, getting a free email address that doesn't either need a phone number verification, doesn't get banned for random reasons or doesn't stop working suddenly, because it decided it needed 2 factor authenticaion is practically impossible.
(btw, if anyone knows a service, that gives you a free email address (well, more than one) with smtp access, no phone number or any other verification and doesn't ban accounts after a few automated messages, please tell.. I don't care about getting marked as spam, I can whitelist it on my side)
> "Back in the time" I would've used email for that
One thing I like about chat is the different mindset and granularity. I can have a bot post a message to a channel for normal messages and then tag me, thus giving me a notification, for urgent matters. Email is more like digital mail, I don't want to have to check it often (I disable email notifications).
"Back in the time" I would've used email for that, but if you don't run your own server, getting a free email address that doesn't either need a phone number verification, doesn't get banned for random reasons or doesn't stop working suddenly, because it decided it needed 2 factor authenticaion is practically impossible.
(btw, if anyone knows a service, that gives you a free email address (well, more than one) with smtp access, no phone number or any other verification and doesn't ban accounts after a few automated messages, please tell.. I don't care about getting marked as spam, I can whitelist it on my side)