do you use a program to tell you when your host is down?

[airdick]

Originally Posted by waz

do you guys use programs/email alerts to tell you when your host goes down? i was useing internetseer but it doesn't look like it's working right

I run this simple script from cron at home to check on my webserver and e-mail an alarm to my cellphone if there is a problem:

http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/talks/...icks/sos2.html