+1 for siteuptime.com. I can get messages sent to my mobile phone that keep me informed, even on the go.
-----Original Message----- From: Dominic Watson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:59 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Determining if multiple Sites are Up/Down? This can be fine. However, depending on your needs, you might want to use an external service for site monitoring. I've used siteuptime.com for a while and it's proved very useful and easy to use. I've not used it, but they have an API that may let you perform actions when sites drop out, etc. One reason to trust monitoring to an external site is that by having only a single server pinging your site(s) you have the following risks (which may be perfectly acceptable): 1. The monitoring server could go down 2. Problems with the server's connection or route to your site can lead to false positives My tuppance. Dominic On 13 October 2011 14:38, Che Vilnonis <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a niche directory website that lists dozens of other related sites. > What would be the best way to determine if a web site is up/down so I can > programmatically make a site active or inactive? I was thinking of just > creating a scheduled task and using <cfhttp> and looking for a status code > of "200". Are there any better ways? > > Thanks, Che > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348097 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
