via TechCrunch:

“…Cloudkick, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that offers a free server management system to businesses, is rolling out its freemium model and additional features. Cloudkick provides detailed graphs on the health of your servers, and tools to categorize and keep information about what each server is doing. Cloudkick’s dashboard allows you to easily add or remove servers from Rackspace Cloud, Amazon EC2, Linode, GoGrid, Slicehost, RimuHosting, and VPS.NET and then monitor an unlimited amount of instances. You can see all the servers in one place, and color-code and label each server…”

If you’ve ever had headaches tuning your server then this service seems to be the killer cloud app/service for you!

What about pricing? Here’s the low-down from the CloudKick blog:

“… Pricing

With the release of our new premium features, we’ve launch new pricing plans for our business users. Under these plans, you’ll get access to our advanced new monitoring tools that allow you to track metrics such as disk, load, CPU and memory. Plans range from $99 to $599…”

We now know that cloud computing is serious business when startups like CloudKick build their business and revenue models on cloud management systems

posted by Paul “The Pageman” Pajo