Tipping
Tipping is a ping script to check website and send email alert
Why This
No-frills way to host your own website or webservice monitoring (obviously if your entire server is down including mail and network this will not work; but you can buddy up with a friend and monitor each other's websites)
Originally developed pro bono for monitoring a social mission website with over 1 million monthly pageviews
Set Up
- Update pinger.php with your email alert settings and server path
- Update mailer.php with your signature and catch-all email etc
- If not using PHPMailer, set to option 2 (php mail) in mailer.php
To Use
Run the job on its own or from a scheduler, for example the crontab entry below checks every 15 minutes
0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /full_path_on_your_server/pinger.php http://tebel.org "open-source software" >> /full_path_on_your_server/pinger.log
Support triggering from URL through a web browser or webservice API (first enable that option in pinger.php)
your_website_url/pinger.php?URL=http://tebel.org&CHECK=open-source software
License
Tipping is open-source software released under the MIT license