a tool to check if your servers are up?
 

Is there a desktop utitly that checks the uptime of your servers
every xx minutes and alerts me when theyre down?

I have two mexicans sitting in the datacenter that call me when they go down . Very cheap and reasonable. and they never complain

yeah.. was using that option for years as well but they
found out sig whoring made more...

Better idea is to get a host with a monitoring system this way they are alerted as soon as you go down and can fix the problem, and you can always check your MRTG stats and see any breaks in the graph which would indicate downtime.

Pretty straightforward otherwise check out:

http://www.internetseer.com

mrthumbs, another client of ours uses this one "websitepulse" I think. The guy who posted it is thinkx.

I looked for a free one for awhile never found any..if you find a freeone please post!

This one has a free version for upto 3 servers, if you want to monitor more you have to buy it.

Price starts at $99

IPCheck Server Monitor

Cool!