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So, I'm currently using A system where I can manually say if the website is online or not; but I don't see this as "Efficient" because I won't be there 24/7. So I was wondering if there was a way to check if their website is online or not and then create a file on a server as soon as it goes down?

Jon P
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Sonny
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  • There is no way to check internally if a site is online or not. What can the server do if it crashes or down? The answer is: not a lot. Generally you use an external service for this. [DotComMonitor](https://www.dotcom-monitor.com/) is just one example of such a service. – Jon P Aug 28 '18 at 04:45

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You can use free service like UptimeRobot. It will send you notification when the site is down or back up.

Roman Svitukha
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I wrote simple script in python. Script simple check website status. Here is a link, maybe help You.

Script simple check site code response. If status code is ok - 200 then do nothing. If status code is different than 200, send email notification to declared addresses in config.ini.

Finaly, in crontab I create a log file with site statuse.

1 * * * * /usr/bin/python3 /scripts/WebPageStatusCheck/main.py >> /scripts/WebPageStatusCheck/log/WebPageStatusCheck.log 2>&1

Here check page status and return site status to main.py

import urllib.request


class CheckSiteStatus:
    def __init__(self):
        pass

    @staticmethod
    def check_site_url(url: str):
        url = 'http://' + url
        status = urllib.request.urlopen(url).getcode()
        return status

With best regards!

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz
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You check it using

1:Ping your website

2:Go here and enter your website url to check availability

Make sure that your site is live on server.

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TAHA SULTAN TEMURI
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  • I know if its online or not but the website does not detect if it's online or not and I was wondering if there was a way that automatically detected it and created a file on the server. – Sonny Aug 28 '18 at 04:40
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Depends on the technology you are using for your website, you can program events when site goes up or down. Look at this for example of shutdown event in ASP.NET.

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