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iOS app for server monitoring?

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  • 15-08-2013 2:56pm
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    equivariant
    Registered Users Posts: 966 ✭✭✭


    Very basic question here (I hope this is the right forum). I have searched on the web and in the app store but haven't found a solution yet

    I manage a small website for an online business - we use a vps from letshost to serve our web application.

    Is there an iOS app that I can install on my iPhone that will automatically ping the website at regular intervals and only alert me if the website is down?


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    ressem
    Registered Users Posts: 2,426 ✭✭✭ressem


    It's possible but it'd be a battery hog and dependent on your phones access (By which I mean most iPhones to date place restrictions on apps running in the background). The common way is to have a secondary website do the monitoring and push an alert to an iPhone app. Besides being able to ping the server is no guarantee that the apache server hasn't fallen down.

    The big name is Spiceworks in this area, but you might might consider this overkill. 15 minute between checks.

    There are other free and non-free options that appear with a quick search.

    http://www.monitor.us (1 minute resolution for paid version, 30 min for free)
    https://www.pingdom.com/ (1 free monitor, resolution down to 1 minute. extra sites cost money)
    http://www.uptimerobot.com/ (5 minute resolution)


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