Hi John,

If it's only running xymonnet then I assume it would be reporting to a server in your network. Not sure that's the best idea as you wouldn't get warnings then if your network went down or if the primary instance of xymon went down.

Our success story is we have a full xymon instance in Amazon's cloud, monitoring our public presence on the web and at our primary datacenter firewall. It's a very typical instance on its own except for it having a remote xymonnet that's behind a firewall at another hosting provider, essentially monitoring everything public facing even if it's behind a remote firewall that we don't operate. That server also sends emails to our personal gmail as well as our internal email address. Then we have another separate internal instance that's monitoring everything on our own internal networks. It's been working very well for us for several years now.

Scot Kreienkamp | Senior Systems Engineer | La-Z-Boy Corporate One La-Z-Boy Drive | Monroe, Michigan 48162 | Office: 734-384-6403 | | Mobile: 7349151444 | Email: Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com -----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 2:40 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Running Xymon on commercially hosted VPS?

We have a business need which could be met by running an instance of Xymon server outside our network. This would be a small instance running little more than xymonnet. There would be no clients reporting to it. It would not be running a web server.

Does anyone want to share their stores of success or failure doing something similar on a USA-located hosting provider?

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