Can anyone recommend a good (preferably free) application or service to monitor the uptime of a server? And possibly send out an alert by email or sms when it goes down? Statistics are not really needed, it's just about knowing when a server goes down.
A:
It depends how "sophisticated" tool you'd like to have (and install of course). You can use simple cron script on another server, or software designed for server monitoring. I've got experience and I can recommend you Zabbix or Nagios, but you can choose another one.
msurovcak
2010-09-27 21:25:00
Thank you for your response! I'll look at the ones you mentioned. I also looked at mon.itor.us, but their free option is a bit too limited to be useful for our needs. (Also a bit too much ads) Anyway, thanks again!
Squrler
2010-09-28 12:53:37