April 20, 200917 yr Hey guys, The forum went down a week or two ago for about half an hour and I used downforeveryoneorjustme.com to check if it was actually down. I realised that a tool like this would be much more useful if it had some sort of notification system to let you know when the site came back up. sitechecker.info was born. After successfully testing it when the forum moved servers the other day, I thought I'd run it by you guys to see if you had any design/feature suggestions. http://www.sitechecker.info Thanks! EDIT: you can test the site down results by inputting any correctly formatted domain - ssss.ss is the one I was using.
April 20, 200917 yr Nice idea i like, one gripe though. Hitting return after typinf an address in didn't submit the request and i had to manually click with my mouse.
April 20, 200917 yr Author Nice idea i like, one gripe though. Hitting return after typinf an address in didn't submit the request and i had to manually click with my mouse. Yea, I ran into problems with this as the form is submitted with a link instead of a submit button. Does anyone know how to action a link with javascript when the enter key is pressed?
April 21, 200917 yr really good idea, simple design that is to the point. I will be using this one in the future.
April 21, 200917 yr Author really good idea, simple design that is to the point. I will be using this one in the future. Cheers Dizi How many server locations does it check from? Only the one, how would I go about checking it from others? And what's the benefit of this? Well, design and usability wise, its spot on! I love your designs dude. Thanks Pedro!!
April 22, 200917 yr Re the server locations... Let me try and give an example. Someone has a site hosted in Ireland. Your checker site is hosted in London. This person lives in New York. If they can't access their site, they know that something's wrong, but it could be a problem with their site, but it could be a problem with the route between New York and Ireland. If they use your checker, and the site reports as down, it could be a problem with their site, or it could be a problem with the route between New York and Ireland and a problem between London and Ireland. It starts to look a little more likely that it's their site, because it's less likely that 2 different internet routes would be down at the same time. But it's still not guaranteed. If your site checker also calls a version of itself on a server in Sydney or Singapore (as a web service or something), and that reports as down as well, then it's really getting much more likely that the person's website is actually down, rather than three completely different internet routes being down at the same time. You get my drift? There are site checkers around on the web that will check from 10+ server locations - though usually you have to pay for that level of service! So my comment wasn't a criticism, I was just curious whether you were going to go down that route.
April 22, 200917 yr Author Re the server locations... Ahh I see, thanks for that Andy. Currently all my sites are hosted on the one server, and I can't really justify paying any extra to have this hosted elsewhere as well. It's certainly something I'll look into in the future if the site ever makes some money I like the idea of the site and the design is very nice, good work Thanks Jarvooo
April 22, 200917 yr Ahh I see, thanks for that Andy. Currently all my sites are hosted on the one server, and I can't really justify paying any extra to have this hosted elsewhere as well. It's certainly something I'll look into in the future if the site ever makes some money Thanks Jarvooo I've got a US server I don't mind you hosting a mirror on...
April 22, 200917 yr Author I've got a US server I don't mind you hosting a mirror on... Wow, thanks skidz! I'll send you a PM now
April 22, 200917 yr Just realised if you click Check it without entering a domain name, it returns: example.com is up! Do you save the sites people check to a database too?
April 22, 200917 yr Author Just realised if you click Check it without entering a domain name, it returns: example.com is up!Do you save the sites people check to a database too? It should prevent you from checking with an empty/incorrect domain name, but if you leave it as the default 'example.com' I decided to allow it. Figured someone might one day actually want to check example.com lol. It does save them to the database, with a 'found' flag and datestamp. A script then runs every 15 mins checking all domains where found=0 and emailing the user if the site is back up. Very very simple
April 22, 200917 yr It does save them to the database, with a 'found' flag and datestamp. A script then runs every 15 mins checking all domains where found=0 and emailing the user if the site is back up. Sweet as a nut mate!
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