May 13
You know those times when a client phones to say "i think my website is down, can you check for me?" and it turns out not to be a problem with their web site, more a problem with their internet connection. Sound familiar?
ismywebsiteok.com is something i knocked up in 10 minutes to help in just these circumstances. It performs a cfhttp to the specified URL and checks it get’s a 200 response back - nothing flash, nothing clever - just a simple test from a remote server.
I’ve found myself in a position before when I’ve assured the client that their web site is fine only to find that there is a connectivity problem from the public Internet to the server but I was accessing it via a private network which was just fine…
May 13th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Very nice and clean.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
I use watchour.com for most of my production sites. It is really cood, sends you emails/sms when the site goes down and has the ability to test from multiple geographical locations.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:35 am
This site is strikingly similar, might they perhaps be related? I think we should be told
May 14th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Pretty neat.
We actually use http://www.siteuptime.com it alerts you whenever your sites go down and it can check from different geographical locations.
It’s pretty sweet.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:32 am
@jeremy - nope, completely unrelated…never seen that site before, spookily similar I’d have to agree. This web2.0 type design must be catching on….
May 15th, 2008 at 9:33 am
@shlomy - I was thinking of adding a mesh type testing network where i ask other folk to install an ‘agent’ - essentially a CFC that i could talk through to test from other locations. This is currently testing from GoDaddy should anyone care.
May 18th, 2008 at 8:03 am
I prefer http://mon.itor.us
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:44 am
that’s a neat site!! Cheers Oguz.