Fastest Way To Check If A Site Is Up??

[William Palmer]

Hehehehe its ok im not much of a fan at php

but here is a .bat script

@ping wareztech.com > nul
@IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO dead
@IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO alive

:dead
@net send wareztech.com Dead
@ECHO Dead
@GOTO end

:alive
@net send wareztech.com Alive
@ECHO Alive
@GOTO end

:end

@ECHO Bye

[DEViANCE]

Yeah sure i know how to do that from my desktop but this is not possible with php as far as i know hence the other methods described..

[bennelsworth]

Is this shared hosting? Dedi? Can you run exec() for example?

[William Palmer]

Why would you even want to run a .php script to check if a site is up? not judging your creation as i think its unique idea actually.


If you want ill create a software that will do this are you wanting to ping a certain amounts of domain names or unlimited?

[DEViANCE]

Shared hosting, about 45 sites on server.

The reason why i want to do it is cos there is no point submitting to dead/down sites (which makes the process almost as long as this atm), so it unticks them... maybe a bad idea in practice but i like the actual idea and if i can get it to work at a decent speed i will keep it, else i won't.

I am just brain storming, i don't even have a template for it yet.

[William Palmer]

Are you the owner of this server? if so why not just create a .pl script which pings the whole network of sites and informs them if there site is down ?

sounds a lot easier but yeah that is a good idea now that you said that i can see where your coming from

[DEViANCE]

No i do not own the server, and i work with php, its a php ddl submitter sacript i am making......

Anyway for now i have made it so as default it does NOT check the sites but i make a link like site.com?check=1 and then it will check if they so desire...

I just hope i can find a better method or its a waste of a good idea.

[William Palmer]

Hmm im not advanced at php but just using a thought you can do this

make a db in your server make a script to connect to the store in the db all the sites that create a account on your site there site gets stored in the db after that make a script that will do a scan every 7 minutes or higher by doing a get request from the domain name they added to your site if your script recieves the get request on port 80 then its up if not its down which will then show a image or a text that you specify

[bennelsworth]

Sounds awfully familiar

[Clowner]

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
solution.