Need to run a host monitoring script every 15 minutes but from where?
I am revising a short Perl script I found on the Internet to monitor my web hosters so that I can have some objective way to tell when the hosting servers are down.
I have thought of running this as a cron job on one of my hosters but I don't know if they would be too happy about this script running day and night every 15 minutes. Even if I could I am not sure a cron job could be set up to run more often than hourly??
Anyway I was just wondering if anyone might have suggestions as to how I could run such a script? From where using what service? It's a short script that simply queries things like the HTTP server, SSH Telnet service, and so forth. Sending me an email if one of the services is not responding.
I am checking out a new hoster and want to have some way of objectively checking whether their servers are up as much as they say they are. They probably are but last night for example I could not FTP to my hoster, connect to the hosting web site, connect to my web site, and a tracer route to their site showed it timed out when it got to their servers.
Yet when contacted I was told there had been no down time. Perhaps it was a fluke but nevertheless I want to check things out very carefully before I start relying on them to be my main hoster.
I have considered paying for a monitoring service but why pay for one when I can monitor things using my own script? For free. If I can find a way to run it every 15 minutes that is
.Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Carlos
