Re: How to monitor a hosted web server

[James Jelinek <jjelinek () hcec com>]

Nagios would work really well here too.  And it's not such a pia to setup these days.

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On Jul 11, 2011, at 5:18 PM, krymson () gmail com wrote:

> If you currently have an internal monitoring system, you can check into using it to just monitor the web site, 
> typically with a call to port 80 or something to that effect. Something like SolarWinds has the ability to just 
> monitor an external URL.
>
> If you want to script it, you can do that as well. Just choose your preferred scripting language and look up how to 
> pull/grab/get/wget/curl a web page for monitoring. Then use scheduled tasks or cron to schedule it. There should be 
> no shortage of how-to's for this approach.
>
> Of you can find an external paid-for service which will range from very rudimentary gets to more involved scripts 
> that actually log into and navigate sites enough to proove everything is working correctly.
>
> Host-Tracker.com comes up pretty early in Google searches on the topic.
>
> I've heard KeyNote.com does nice script support for more in-depth monitoring.
>
>
> <- snip ->
> Hello List,
>
> How do you usually monitor websites that are externally hosted?
> I have called several web hosting companies, but any of them offer the 
> alert service (email or sms) when the website does not load (due to 
> hardware, software or attacks).
>
> How SMBs that have e-commerce websites that have to be up and running 
> all the time deal with monitoring thsoe websites?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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it benefits your company and how your customers can tell if a site is secure. You will find out how to test, purchase, 
install and use a thawte Digital Certificate on your Apache web server. Throughout, best practices for set-up are 
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