> I would like to see tucows offer a server monitoring service, going
> beyond the standard ping or head command and checking for an last
> updated date and/or searching to make sure specific text is included on
> the page.
I found this to be a poor way of doing it.
You get lots of false positives for one reason or another.
We now have a small program on the server which communciates back to us
actively
with the status of all the services.
If we don't get the call home then the alarm goes off.
Regards
Gordon Hudson
Hostroute.com Ltd
www.hostroute.net
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