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When I cannot reach one of my sites, I do not know if it is my problem, my ISP’s or my hosting provider’s. This is why I use the service down for everyone or just me.

I have written a simple script which uses that service. Its usage is:

$ ./is_up.sh commandliners.com
commandliners.com is up

and the script is:

#!/bin/bash

# is_up.sh
# 2009 - Rafa Casado - rafacas@commandliners.com

numargs=$#

if [ $numargs -ne 1 ]
then
        echo "Usage: $0 domain"
        echo "Ex: $0 commandliners.com"
        exit 1
fi

DOMAIN=$1
IS_UP=`wget -nv -O - "http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/$DOMAIN" 2>&1 | \
       grep "is up"`
if [ $? == "1" ]; then
        echo "$DOMAIN is down"
else
        echo "$DOMAIN is up"
fi

But I have modified the script to schedule it as a cron job. The modifications are in the if block, which now is:

if [ $? == "1" ]; then
        mail -s "[ALARM] $DOMAIN is down" your@email.com
fi

I want to check it every hour so the crontab line is:

0 * * * * /path_to_script/is_up.sh commandliners.com

Obviously, the host where you will run the script will not be the one that you want to check ;)