Service fails after some time

[Emporioo]

Bad news, the service has failed again after about 2 weeks. I have extended the polling time to 1 hour now. I would rather it stay up for months on end with a longer polling time then break every couple of weeks.

~~Good news, the service has stayed up for a week after I changed the polling time to 30 minutes. I think the issue is more to do with the ipify API not being able to keep up with the 'frequent' requests as I noticed in the log files it populates the IP field with a webpage for a CDN provider (heroku) that ipify uses, instead of my IP which then breaks the Ubuntu service.~~

~~If I get a month solid run on it with a 30 minute polling time I will drop it to 15 minutes and see if it remains stable. I will keep the issue open for now and edit my findings in a couple of months or so.~~

~~The service appears to fail after running for several hours.~~

~~When I first got it running I tested it by forcing my IP to change. It automatically updated my Hover DNS records, so I can at least confirm it definitely works for my environment when it is up. The failure isn't related to my IP changing or Internet going down.~~

~~It would be interesting to see if anyone else is currently getting experiencing this behaviour? (while having the default polling set to 10 minutes).~~

~~Hover-dns-updater.service - Hover DNS Updater for Dynamic IP Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/hover-dns-updater.service; enabled; vendor prese> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2021-06-04 22:52:52 BST; 11h ago Process: 10134 ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /etc/hover-dns-updater/hover-dns-updater.py> Main PID: 10134 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jun 04 22:52:52 Chris-Pi python3[10134]: return session.request(method=method, url=ur>Jun 04 22:52:52 Chris-Pi python3[10134]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/>Jun 04 22:52:52 Chris-Pi python3[10134]: resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs) Jun 04 22:52:52 Chris-Pi python3[10134]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/>Jun 04 22:52:52 Chris-Pi python3[10134]: r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs) Jun 04 22:52:52 Chris-Pi python3[10134]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/>Jun 04 22:52:52 Chris-Pi python3[10134]: raise ConnectionError(e, request=request) Jun 04 22:52:52 Chris-Pi python3[10134]: requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnec>Jun 04 22:52:52 Chris-Pi systemd[1]: hover-dns-updater.service: Main process exited, code>Jun 04 22:52:52 Chris-Pi systemd[1]: hover-dns-updater.service: Failed with result 'exit->~~

~~I am running it natively on a RPi 3 with Ubuntu Server 64-Bit 21.04 (raspi). All packages are fully up to date.~~

~~I am going to try and change the default polling time to 30 minutes and see if this helps, I will update if it does.~~

Last of all, a million thanks to you and anyone else involved in developing this. If I can get it to work consistently it will be incredibly useful, as my ISP is BT (UK) and my external IP changes pretty regularly. I don't think Hover will ever support updating DNS A records via hostname.