Free server monitoring Request for Expressions of Interest

Hi All,

I'm thinking of building a free service which will check the status of your servers-services. It'll probably be based on Nagios and will have a completely automated web-based frontend. Thus far I've only been able to find quasi-free services on the internet, and most only do ping checks. I'm intending to make a fully capable system that will not only do ping checks, but also http, ssh, ftp and other misc tcp checks. It'd work by my server sending a request to yours and reading the response. If it's what's expected then all is good. If not, an alert would be sent to you via email, IM or SMS-Pager.

To be researched: SMSes aren't free, so I'd probably suggest people buy a package of SMSes from a company like ClickaTel and enter their details on the administration interface, so that the notification system can use their own SMSes. I'd probably use a service like Naturally, this would be optional. If anyone has a better idea, I'm all ears.

Anyway, I'm trying to gauge interest in this project. I want to make sure people will actually use it if I put the time and effort into making it. I've put together a little expression of interest page,

I was inspired by the fantastic service offered by the blokes at

Liam