Website monitoring tool

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Scott wrote:
> Hi,
>
>         is there any programs that can check my website every few minutes
> to see if it is working and have something like a pop up when my site goes
> down.  I am using a free web host that goes down every now and then and
> would like alerts on my desktop when this happens.

I would think you could write a script using wget.  Check for something 
retrieved (or not).   If not, raise a flag.