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Automated Uptime Verification
By Patrick Lin on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 | Tags: php, tutorial | 1 Comment »
If you have ever administered a website, you know that downtime is unavoidable. Creating a system to automatically check if your website is up can help deal with downtime and provide a better user experience. Doing so is quite simple if you have the following tools available:
- A web server other that that on which the website is hosted
- Cron (if you do not have this, you can use an online service)
- PHP with libcurl support
- PHP with mail support (optional)