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Is it just me, or was this server unreachable for approx. 12 hours? At least yesterday (and in Germany).

cu, w0lf.

Naturally, I love Jesus very much. I love him so much that I'd like to crucify him all over again.

Hmm I am afraid it was just you, ginsterbusch. I remember that I checked the site yesterday, and it was up and running, or so I recall. But I think that to be sure, we should wait for null's reply :)

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I'm afraid your observation may be correct. The server was offline yesterday sometime around mid-afternoon until I got home around 20:00 local time. Apparently, in addition to not being quite as fast as promised, my 'net connection has developed the habit of dying in a very creative way once or twice a week: the line is still up, status is OK, but no traffic gets through. I'm sorry for the downtime (and a bit annoyed myself) and am planning to implement a watchdog of some kind.
(If the outage really really bugs you, feel free to call Telecom FL and tell them to improve their lousy service or at least slash their incredible prices in half.)

Consider yourself hugged.

If you need some help - just ask ;)

I could eg. set up a pseudo-cron checking on my hosting account to check if NAO is still alive or add a cron-job to my developer system at work. Last one would only be available during the time I'm at the job, but offers the full row of GNU/Linux tools, while the first option would only offer some primitive 'is this HTML data still available?'-check.

cu, w0lf.

Naturally, I love Jesus very much. I love him so much that I'd like to crucify him all over again.

Today, it was down or at least unreachable once again, during the morning till about now.

If you need some help with an automated ping- or webserver watch-service, I could help out by:

a) using a pseudo-cronjob installed at my site
b) setting up a cron job at this computer (only on during working times, that'll be 9:00 a.m. till 6 p.m., sometimes longer)

cu, w0lf.

Naturally, I love Jesus very much. I love him so much that I'd like to crucify him all over again.

That's nice, but I can already determine when the server is offline (my work PC checks it regularly when I'm logged in, plus I also have a handful of outside servers myself which I could use for that purpose). The tricky part is obviously not to detect an outage but to fix it, so unless you can set up a cron job that lets me sneak out of the office without my boss noticing, or that kicks my ISP's network staff's ass, there's not much you can do from the outside.
As for fixing it, I've written a script to reset the connection when it detects an outage. It's already gotten the server back online several times; to handle today's outage it needed a small change.

Consider yourself hugged.

Wasn't a Ruby on Rails version of Netalive in the works? Hmmm... maybe not but I could have sworn I heard that at some point.

Yeah, I thought so, too. Prolly Jaz got tired during the creation process and gave up.

Wouldnt mind helping him, thou.

cu, w0lf.

Naturally, I love Jesus very much. I love him so much that I'd like to crucify him all over again.

Yeah, I thought so, too. Prolly Jaz got tired during the creation process and gave up.

I imagine that a site like this would be orders of magnitude easier to write in RoR rather than Perl. I don't know though as I haven't touched web programming as much as I'd like to in recent years.