What is Valinor?
Valinor is a server monitoring, security and incident management platform that consolidates signals from VPS servers, shared hosting accounts and websites into a single dashboard for agencies, hosting companies and server owners. Valinor's differentiator is incident correlation: related signals are merged into one incident rather than a dozen separate alerts, and any remediation runs only after explicit human approval.
Key Features
- Incident correlation: Repeats of the same problem stay grouped as one incident, and notifications are sent once by email or push, with Slack or Discord available on paid plans. This reduces alert noise so operators can focus on a single event instead of a stream of duplicates.
- Lightweight read-only agent: The agent is a single shell script started by a timer, with no daemon and no open port, relying only on standard tools such as curl, openssl and sha256sum. Installed without
--enable-actions, it has no way to run anything, and fixes can only be enabled at install time, never through an update. - Human-approved remediation: Every fix waits for a click in the dashboard, and outside the list of approved fixes the agent runs nothing. Nothing reaches the server before that approval.
- AI incident analysis: A one-click analysis reads the collected evidence and explains the likely cause in plain words, such as identifying a probable backdoor in an injected file.
- VPS monitoring with agent: For servers with root access, the signed report arrives every 5 minutes by default (configurable from 1 to 60 minutes) and covers SSH logins accepted and failed, SSH keys, accounts and sudo, suspicious processes by behavior, backdoor patterns and fingerprints in the webroot, and disk and inode usage on every filesystem.
- Shared hosting monitoring: For cPanel-style accounts without root, the agent runs inside the account as its own user while the site is checked from outside in parallel, covering sha256 fingerprints of webroot files, injection patterns inside files, account access logs, HTTP availability every 1 minute, and one-click cleanup with approval on request.
- External site checks: Domains can be monitored from outside the network like any visitor, with no installation required.
- External host checks: Host addresses are checked from outside, including IP blocklists and ports for IPs, and the site, DNS and certificate for domains, plus every site hosted on the server.
Use Cases
- Agencies managing client sites: A backdoor planted on a client's site at night is detected by the agent report, triggers a single alert by email and push, and the AI analysis explains the likely cause before any quarantine action is approved from the dashboard.
- Hosting companies overseeing mixed fleets: Servers, hosting accounts and client sites appear in one dashboard, so teams can compare VPS, shared hosting and external-only hosts without switching tools.
- Server owners without a monitoring stack: A single shell script installed with one command provides signed reports every 5 minutes without a daemon or open port to maintain.
- Shared hosting customers without root: Accounts where nothing can be installed at the system level are still monitored from inside the account and from outside simultaneously.
- Incident review and uptime history: Resolved incidents remain in the host's problem log, and every outage keeps its cause in the uptime history for later reference.
Who It Is For
Valinor is built for agencies, hosting companies and server owners who manage multiple servers, hosting accounts and client websites and need one place to watch them. It suits teams that want security and availability signals correlated into single incidents, with remediation gated behind human approval rather than automated actions on production systems.
Pricing
Valinor offers a Starter and Plus plan with 14 days free and no card required, alongside a free start option and published pricing. Specific price figures are not stated in the source material.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Valinor used for?
Valinor is used to monitor VPS servers, shared hosting accounts and websites from one dashboard, correlate related security and availability signals into single incidents, and apply fixes only after human approval. It also provides AI-generated explanations of incident evidence and retains outage causes in uptime history.
Is Valinor free?
Valinor offers a free start and a 14-day free trial on the Starter or Plus plans with no card required. Pricing details beyond the trial terms are listed on the Valinor website.
Does the Valinor agent allow remote command execution?
By default, no. Installed without --enable-actions, the Valinor agent is 100% read-only and has no way to run anything; fixes are enabled only at install time, never through an update, and every fix waits for approval in the dashboard.
How often does Valinor check servers?
Valinor's agent reports every 5 minutes by default, configurable anywhere from 1 to 60 minutes. External checks run separately, including HTTP availability every 1 minute for shared hosting sites.
Who should use Valinor?
Valinor is intended for agencies, hosting companies and server owners running VPS servers, hosting accounts and client sites. It fits teams that want consolidated monitoring and security incidents without automated changes to their servers.
