If you have a self managed dedicated server, how do you go about monitoring. In perfect world you shouldn't have to worry about it and it should just do its job 24/7/365, but in the event of the server crashing, or coming offline somehow, how do you minimize the downtime. I was thinking of something like a little program that would ping the server every so many minute, and in case of downtime would SMS or alert me somehow. Anybody know of anything like that out there, that would not be a paid monitoring service. Any help highly appreciated, Regards Vlad