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Cheaper than Competition and Open Source?

How can a commercial product be cheaper than Open Source? The secret is simple: electricity. Running a monitoring solution involves 3 costs: software (free with Open Source), hardware (server) to run the software on and electricity to power and cool it.

ServersCheck's Monitoring Appliance typically uses almost 30 times less electricity compared to monitoring software running on a standard system. By saving on the electricity bill, the Monitoring Appliance becomes cheaper than competing products as outlined below.

This table does not provide a feature comparison. As each environment in which monitoring is used is different, we strongly recommend to try out the products to make sure they fit your requirements.

Product
ServersCheck Monitoring Appliance
Similar Monitoring Software1
Open Source2
on Appliance
Open Source2
on traditional server
Items that can be monitored
 250 100 100 Not limited
Professional technical support included included included not included
Everything preinstalled ready to go included not included included not included
3G modem for SMS alerting & status info included not included not included not included

Estimated Pricing
Software license fee $1899 $1995 FREE FREE
Hardware cost to run Monitoring Software included in price on existing hardware $3275 3 on existing hardware
Total purchase cost $1899 $1995 $3275 $0
Estimated total annual electricity cost5 $14.15 $413.2 $413.2 $413.2
Estimated total purchase cost and energy cost for 5 years $1969 $4061 $5341 $2066
+ $2291 + $3571 + $296

Estimated Environmental impact
Power usage 15 Watt 438 Watt4 438 Watt4 438 Watt4
Annual energy consumption 131 kWh 3839 kWh 3839 kWh 3839 kWh
Annual estimated average CO2 emission6 175 pounds
79kg		 5144 pounds
2333kg		 5144 pounds
2333kg		 5144 pounds
2333kg


1 Equivalent monitoring software is ipMonitor from Solarwinds
2 Open source software in above table is Nagios
3 Nagios on appliance by op5: op5 Entry system - recommended up to 100 active hosts
4 Average power consumption for volume servers and their cooling is 438W
   http://enterprise.amd.com/Downloads/svrpwrusecompletefinal.pdf
5 Average Retail Price of Electricity Commercial US - September 2008 - 10.77 $cents
   http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html
6 1998-2000 Average Carbon Dioxide Emissions for Electric Power (1.34 lbs/kWh)
   http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oiaf/1605/cdrom/pdf/e-supdoc.pdf