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$2 will buy me a 256mb RAM VPS with Observium or Nagios that will monitor as many servers as i want... Their pricing is ridiculous
Not an average user can setup Observium or Nagios easily thats why this kind of services are offered.We are living in an outsourced world if the owned cost of setting up and maintaining nagios or observium infrastructure is higher then the offer so it means affordable.Just my 2 cents.
So is this truly high pricing? I was thinking about offering 20 checks for $2 per month, whenever our monitoring is rolled out.
Protip, build your own monitoring system.
This is quite an attractive change. There is, however, a 10 check minimum. So no less than $20/m. This is just for monitoring. Patching and automation are separate services with the same pricing structure, in addition to this.
Make no mistake though, most people cannot construct this level of monitoring, patching, and automation. I've been trying to perfect mine, it's not like it's completely above my capability, but we all have time constraints. This is a nice temporary solution and I've tried it in the past.
My experience with them has been rather disappointing
http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/251715#Comment_251715
You're comparing apples and oranges. DIY is cheaper/more work...they're offering less work/more expensive.
This solution is just slow, unresponsive and somewhat bloated. Oh, and it doesn't work for Wheezy.
+1
@raindog308 +1 as far as myself I am happy to pay for peace of mind
@Damian, you don't need to do it that cheap, i think 1$ for 5 services is still very cheap. Even 1$ for 2 services is a fair price compared to others.
The difference is that on these budget services we're rolling out (DNS, monitoring, email), they're "high value", not "high feature". So I think that offering more checks for the same price would be viable.