Social media copy for: The 5-Minute Server Health Check Toolkit
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Variant A — direct
I expanded my “5-minute server health check” blog post into a $9 toolkit: 3 bash scripts, a printable weekly checklist, and a decision tree for every red flag.
12 KB. No dependencies. You own the scripts forever.
https://ko-fi.com/s/5157a41780
Variant B — story-led
A sysadmin DM’d me last month asking how to spot disk problems before they page him at 3am.
I realized the answer was in a blog post I wrote 3 years ago — but the post was too short to actually use.
So I packaged it as a $9 toolkit. 3 scripts. Printable checklist. Decision tree for every red flag.
https://ko-fi.com/s/5157a41780
Three years ago I wrote a blog post about running a 5-minute server health check every Monday morning.
It got decent traction, but the post itself was too short to be genuinely useful.
So this month I packaged it as a real toolkit: 3 production-ready bash scripts, a printable one-page checklist, and a decision tree for every warning those scripts can throw.
12 KB total. MIT licensed. Zero dependencies. You own the scripts forever.
Why $9: the scripts took time to write and test across distros. Most sysadmins prefer paying $9 for a known-working tool over writing their own and missing edge cases.
https://ko-fi.com/s/5157a41780
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Catch problems before they page you at 3am
Get it here: https://ko-fi.com/s/5157a41780
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Title: Show HN: 5-Minute Server Health Check Toolkit – 3 bash scripts + checklist ($9)
Text: I wrote a blog post about a 5-minute weekly server health check three years ago. It got decent traffic but was too short to be useful. Last week I packaged the actual implementation into a $9 toolkit.
Three bash scripts:
- quick-health-check.sh: disk, memory, CPU, errors, network, systemd — runs in 5 seconds
- disk-analyzer.sh: finds what’s eating disk when it fills up
- log-watcher.sh: alerts on error pattern spikes via webhook
Plus a printable weekly checklist and a decision tree for every warning those scripts can throw.
12 KB total. MIT licensed. Zero dependencies. You own the scripts.
I considered making it free, but the scripts took time to write and test across distros. $9 feels right for the time saved vs writing your own.
Blog post (free): https://pragmaticsysadmin.help/posts/2025-12-07-the-5-minute-server-health-check-that-could-save-your-career/ Toolkit ($9): https://ko-fi.com/s/5157a41780