If you are administrating your own dedicated server you should monitor it 24/7 to make sure that it is running smoothly and be able to react immediately when something unforeseen happens. The motherboard of one of my rootservers died just a few days ago and several of my websites where not accessible for a few hours because of this. If I had not reacted that fast that downtime would have been much longer.
The Yahoo Server Monitor Widget is a nice to have widget that is displaying several information about a server on the user’s desktop. It is by far not a complete solution but it works quite nicely for the time the user is working on the PC.
The Server Monitor Widget displays information like CPU Load, Server Uptime, Hard Disk Space, Server Address and Cache which is nice for a quick overview. It pulls the data from the free phpSysInfo script that has to be installed on the server.
This script does not check specific services like MySQL and Email but it gives information if a server is up or down.
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