Server Farmer

There are so many reasons...

Why Server Farmer?

Managing production servers since 2008.

Handle many customers

Unlike with Chef or Puppet, you can safely use a single instance of Server Farmer to manage servers for many different customers.

Add new servers in seconds

Expanding the farm requires just 1 or 2 commands, depending on how your farm management is organized. And no manual messing with config files.

Feel free to ask

You are not alone. If you have a question, or found a problem with Server Farmer, send us a question to support@serverfarmer.org, and we'll try to help.

Integrate with Ansible

Use Server Farmer for all that low-level, repeatable security stuff, and Ansible for high-level application management at the same time.

Be aware

Server Farmer provides central log storage with monitoring tool, so you will be always informed on time about any issues.

Don't fear of bugs

Server Farmer code is less than 1% of Puppet or Chef, and doesn't bring in any fancy features like web panels, that could become an attack vector.

Integrate with any cloud

With Cloud Farmer you can manage all major cloud platforms, deploy new instances and use them just like any other servers. 100% automatic.

Be predictive

Included tools will provide you the current information about the health of each server. So you'll be able to predict problems before they arise.

Keep the best price/cost ratio

Stay ahead of your competition thanks to the lower amount of work, that has to be done manually. Let our solutions do the rest, for free.

When Server Farmer?

Server Farmer doesn't try to be universal. It is written to match the specific business model,
typical mostly for software houses and IT outsourcing companies.

When Server Farmer?

If you manage many servers, that:

are owned/leased/etc. by many different customers
have different operating systems
have different configurations
have different installed services and applications
have different system users, groups and permissions
have different roles and purposes

and most of these customers have 1-4 servers (so your infrastructure is totally mixed), then setting up bigger frameworks (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt etc.) for them is pointless, or at least economically unviable.

Server Farmer combined with Ansible

If some of your customers have 5-30 servers (or even more), you can use:

Server Farmer for system level management (for all customers, just like before)
separate Ansible instance for each such bigger customer, for application level management

When other tools?

If you manage many servers, that:

are owned by one single customer (eg. you work for a corporation)
have similar operating system versions
have similar configurations
have similar installed services and applications
have similar system users, groups and permissions
have the same purpose (even if a bigger farm is divided into many roles)

then Server Farmer still can do the job, but frankly, it might not be the best choice for you.

You can however still be interested in Cloud Farmer, our multi-cloud, full lifecycle IaaS management tool, that supports all major public cloud vendors as well as OpenStack.