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Re:Poll: Which server monitoring tool do you use? by miracle on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @10:34AM (#670441)
too expensive
Re:Poll: Which server monitoring tool do you use? by dmytton on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @10:40AM (#670450)
It's free for 1 server and £10 GBP (~$15 USD) per server per month for multiple servers.

(This is a product from my company)

Re:Poll: Which server monitoring tool do you use? by miracle on Thursday June 25, 2009 @06:02PM (#674448)
you know what would rock?

A hypervisor for server providers that does these tasks in background (without the root server owner seeing it) and alarms the provider if a hd breaks down, temperature is too high, etc! Which can then automatically react.

I think there is a need for your service, but I think it's too expensive. I wouldn't use it. A server starts at 50€ per month, why spend 1/4 of it just for monitoring?

Re:Poll: Which server monitoring tool do you use? by huhtenberg on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @11:03AM (#670490)
Yeah, exactly. $360 per year for two servers is really expensive.
Re:Poll: Which server monitoring tool do you use? by dmytton on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @11:22AM (#670528)
Depends what you compare it to. If you're looking at the "free" products like Nagios etc, then of course it's more expensive. But Nagios and the like require a lot of time and effort to set up, have ongoing maintance and require their own server (no point installing on the same server you're monitoring).

It's therefore about the value the service gives you i.e. support, ease of use, fast setup, easy alerting (e-mail & SMS) and so on.

Re:Poll: Which server monitoring tool do you use? by huhtenberg on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @12:19PM (#670640)
I'm sure you read through my comment in your "Please Review" thread, so just for the reference of others - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658749

In short - if your model works, great, but I can easily see it not working due to the service not being positioned properly.