vps-online-keeper

The cheap VPS (Virtual private server) would go offline silently sometimes. The utility script will boot VPS if it is offline.

Currently, it supports

Installation

Install by pip:

pip install vps-online-keeper

or download the latest version from github:

git clone git://github.com/likema/vps-online-keeper.git
cd vps-online-keeper

If running source code under Debian/Ubuntu, please install dependencies by

sudo apt-get install python-beautifulsoup python-requests python-gevent

boot_vps command line arguments:

-t|--type {chicagovps,bluevm} The type of VPS
-u|--username USERNAME The username of VPS client area
-p|--password PASSWORD The password of VPS client area
-c|--cookies-dir COOKIES_DIR The directory to store http cookies, default: cookies

e.g.

./boot_vps -t chicagovps -u <username> -p <password>

For keeping your VPS online, your can add the above command into cron by

crontab -e

*/15 * * * * <srcdir>/boot_vps -t chicagovps -u <username> -p <password>

and it will be run every 15 minutes.