John Beynon

Confessions of a code Junkie and anything else i fancy!

ismywebsiteok.com

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…

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10 Comments

  1. Very nice and clean.

  2. 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.

  3. This site is strikingly similar, might they perhaps be related? I think we should be told ;-)

  4. 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.

  5. @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….

  6. @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.

  7. that’s a neat site!! Cheers Oguz.

  8. I use this all the time. It’s quite handy. Thanks

  9. Used it quite a bit today! Helped resolve a dns issue. Tralala, thanks.

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