Budget-Friendly Server Monitoring

Our Budget Monitoring package includes essential server monitoring at an affordable price point. You get 24/7 monitoring of your server's vital signs including CPU usage, memory consumption, disk space, and network connectivity. The package includes a simple, easy-to-read dashboard that shows your server status at a glance, automated email and SMS alerts when issues are detected, and basic uptime monitoring for your websites and applications. This monitoring-only service focuses on detection and alerting without the complexity or cost of full server management. You'll receive clear notifications when problems occur, giving you the information needed to address issues quickly. The dashboard provides historical data and trends to help you understand your server's performance patterns over time.

Our Budget Monitoring package is specifically designed for small businesses that need visibility into their server health but prefer to handle maintenance themselves or have existing technical support. Unlike our full administration packages starting at £250/month, this service focuses purely on monitoring and alerting without hands-on management. You won't get security patching, software updates, configuration changes, or direct server intervention included. However, you will get comprehensive monitoring data and alerts that help you identify issues before they become critical. This approach gives you professional-grade monitoring at a fraction of the cost, perfect for businesses with technical staff who can act on the monitoring data we provide.

Our Budget Monitoring service provides real-time alerts within 2-5 minutes of detecting issues. You'll receive notifications for critical events like server downtime, high CPU usage (>85% for 5+ minutes), low memory availability (<10% free), disk space warnings (<15% free), and website/application unavailability. Alerts are delivered via email and SMS (optional) with clear, non-technical language explaining what's happening. Each alert includes the current status, how long the issue has persisted, and suggested next steps. You can customize alert thresholds and notification preferences through your dashboard. Our monitoring checks your systems every 60 seconds for most metrics and every 30 seconds for uptime monitoring.

Absolutely! Our Budget Monitoring service is designed as a perfect stepping stone to our comprehensive server administration packages. Since we're already monitoring your servers, upgrading to full management is seamless - we already have deep insight into your infrastructure and its patterns. Many of our clients start with Budget Monitoring to understand their server needs and then upgrade to our Essential Server Care (£250/month) or Professional tier (£400/month) as their business grows. When you're ready to upgrade, there's no setup fee and no interruption to your monitoring - we simply add the management services on top of the existing monitoring foundation. This approach lets you scale your support as your business needs evolve.

Yes, but the installation is simple and lightweight. We provide a small monitoring agent that you install on your servers, which collects performance data and sends it securely to our monitoring platform. The agent uses minimal system resources (typically <1% CPU and <50MB RAM) and doesn't interfere with your applications. For most standard Linux and Windows servers, installation takes about 10 minutes using our automated installer script. We provide clear installation guides for different operating systems, and our team is available via email to assist if you encounter any issues. The agent operates read-only on your system for security, only collecting metrics without making any changes to your server configuration. For website monitoring, no installation is required - we monitor your sites externally.