Providing off-site monitoring (nagios?) of services and ports would be awesome, with email notification of downtime.

I'd be willing to help setup the nagios stuff if you guys decide to do this.

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Jay Faulkner
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My company provides exactly this service, and we're currently offering a special discount to Linode customers. See http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3177 for details or contact me directly if you've got questions.

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