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To spread a little xmas cheer, at Digital Flapjack we’re offering a discount on ServerBar for the month of December! ServerBar is a simple desktop application to let you monitor the load on your servers, and to quickly give you a way to fire up a terminal on them when you need to.

Usually it retails at $20, but for the month of December you can use the discount code XMAS09SERVERBAR to get a 50% discount. What’s more, it’s free to try before you buy, so if you’ve got some servers you need to worry about you can check it out first!

ServerBar was produced in response to a real need – I need to monitor a lot of servers at Camvine, and just knowing if they’re up or down is not enough. I want to understand their workload characteristics so I can know if there’s something more subtle I need to worry about, like is the server running low on memory, do cron jobs kick off that take a lot of CPU at odd times, and so on. By having the load graphs there it really has helped me understand what’s happening on my servers better. Perhaps it can for you too!