+1 for using an external service, I would however suggest you find a good PAID service. The FREE ones are very unreliable.
Russ On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Rick Faircloth <[email protected]> wrote: > > +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:348099 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
