Re: Determining if multiple Sites are Up/Down?

2011-10-13 Thread Matthew Williams
Call me old school, but I just run Nagios + NagiosQL on one of my VPS's to monitor my various machines. It's a real pain in the arse to setup, to be sure, but it gets the job done. To help with the setup, I have a VM locally that runs Groundworks locally. After that's configured, I export th

Re: Determining if multiple Sites are Up/Down?

2011-10-13 Thread Russ Michaels
ed, even on the go. > > -Original Message- > From: Dominic Watson [mailto:watson.domi...@googlemail.com] > 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

RE: Determining if multiple Sites are Up/Down?

2011-10-13 Thread Rick Faircloth
+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:watson.domi...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:59 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Determining if multiple Sites are Up

Re: Determining if multiple Sites are Up/Down?

2011-10-13 Thread Dominic Watson
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. On

RE: Determining if multiple Sites are Up/Down?

2011-10-13 Thread Che Vilnonis
Russ, thanks for the +1 Ray, I have not. The site will be hosted on Railo so I don't believe that's an option. -Original Message- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:raymondcam...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:51 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Determining if multiple Si

Re: Determining if multiple Sites are Up/Down?

2011-10-13 Thread Raymond Camden
Have you look at the System Probes feature in the CF Admin? On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Che Vilnonis 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 s

Re: Determining if multiple Sites are Up/Down?

2011-10-13 Thread Russ Michaels
the easiest way would be to CFHTTP the site and make sure you get a valid response back and not an error or a timeout. that is really the most reliable method and is how most of this uptime services work. On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Che Vilnonis wrote: > > I have a niche directory website t