Setting up the infrastructure for a tech startup has become a lot easier these days.

Gone are the days where one had to spend thousands of dollars to get the right hardware installed, software licenses purchased and an IT Administrator on board.

The advent of cloud server offerings has a game changing impact on the cost associated with creating service platforms that offer unlimited scalability.

However, with a growing number of servers comes an increasing demand for monitoring system performance.

This is, where UK software development house Boxed Ice jumps in. Their hosted server monitoring service – Server Density – not only won seedcamp 2009 but also received some fantastic testimonials from users around the globe – and we’ve got 100 invites for you (see below)!

In a nutshell you have to install a lightweight monitoring agent written in Python and open sourced via GitHub on all servers you’d like to monitor (no root privileges required). The software sends performance data over to Server Density every 60 seconds.

Typical data to be monitored is CPU load, physica