For those of you with an unmanaged dedicated server (with no monitoring by the datacenter/NOC), does anyone have a good way to monitor it to notify you if it goes offline? For example a free or low cost Windows program you can run locally which checks every 5, 10, or 15 minutes to see that everything is up and beeps or in another way lets you know as soon as the server has a problem?

Hi,

If you do a search you will find lots of different software and services.

Two that I use (not run locally on your PC) are qwkmon.com and easymonitor.com. They both offer free and paid monitoring services and appear pretty reliable.