Re: Web server down warning

Graham,

I use an outside service called Webpartner (www.webpartner.com).  They will
check up to 5 URL's every 20 minutes for $179/year, and they send you e-mail
when any are unreachable (not so great if you're running SMTP on your
webserver and your server's down, they suggest getting a pager that can
receive e-mail [which I'm getting]).  We decided to go with this because we
have a flaky firewall (not my choice, but when you host on an AS/400 because
your company is Blue through and through, you do what they tell you), so
just using server monitoring software wouldn't work for us.  Anyway, I'm
still in the free evaluation period, so I'm not sure how I feel about it,
but so far I'm pretty pleased with it.  It's picked up any time the server
has been down since I've signed up.

Mike Eovino
Webmaster
Estes Express Lines
http://www.estes-express.com


-----Original Message-----
From: graham lewis <graham.lewis(at)port.ac.uk>
To: hwg-servers(at)hwg.org <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 4:33 AM
Subject: Web server down warning


I am running Microsoft IIS on NT Server.  I have a few Web sites
which are beginning to be used heavily.  From time to time, for
various reasons, the Web server and sometimes the NT Server go
offline.  The first I usually know of this is when somebody e-mails
me to ask where the Web site went.....  How to other peple deal with
this sort of thing?  Is the software that will send a warning e-mail or
message when a Web server goes down?  Perhaps IIS has
something like this built in...  I  looked but couldn't find.

Graham

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