On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Andrew Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > I have had some problems lately with downtime on one of my sites, a site I do > not control. > > Is there a tool that I could run under X, or on an iPhone, to check the site > every so often (hourly?) and to send me an email or whatever if it is > unavailable ? Free would be good. > > AB
There are commercial services that do such checks. They can test from sites spread around the world, so they check not only whether the site is working but whether it is reachable. Some claim to be free: <http://mon.itor.us> <http://sparc86.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/small-shell-script-to-check-webserver-availability/> -- George N. White III <[email protected]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
