Looking for a basic free hosting for nagios

chooch · 05-31-2011, 05:39 PM

Hi,
Do you know any free host which allows nagios installation?
It's also fine if there's a (very) cheap one- time fee.
Please answer only if you can help (even a little).
Thanks

anomie · 06-01-2011, 10:20 AM

As of this writing, Amazon is offering a free EC2 / S3 instance:

http://aws.amazon.com/free/

I'm running one myself to tinker with various side projects. The free instance comes with an Amazon-branded, slightly modified RHEL installation. If you're knowledgeable with Linux, you should be able to run Nagios from there (for a year, anyway!).

[ disclosure: I do not work for Amazon, and I don't get paid to refer you to their service. ]

chooch · 06-02-2011, 07:15 AM

Thanks, good to know. I hope they allow packages installation.
edit: I signed in using my Amazon account, but it says that it can take a few minutes for the account to become active.
Those few minutes already passed.
Do you know what's the matter?

anomie · 06-02-2011, 03:40 PM

Oye, that's a question for Amazon support. And yes - you can install packages from their repositories, or you can download and roll your own if you're so inclined.

chooch · 06-03-2011, 07:13 PM

Thanks a lot.
I'm still unable to login to ec2. maybe I should sign up to ec2 even though I signed up for Amazon web services...
edit: They ask for a credit card. Do I must give them my credit card even for the free service? looks like there's no other option...

anomie · 06-07-2011, 09:58 AM

Yes, unfortunately that seems to be SOP for many free (with possibility to convert to paid) services on the 'net. I had to provide mine as well.

chooch · 06-08-2011, 08:21 AM

Hope they won't charge automatically if I sign for free service.