Website monitoring tool

[Jay Chandler]

On Jul 15, 2008, at 12:51 PM, 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'm a fan of Nagios, though it requires some pretty gnarly  
configuration at times.

It emails by default, though you could set it to trigger a window  
event fairly easily.

--Jay