On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 13 November 2013 02:55, Jonathan Blake <jonathan.blake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> I'll be monitoring traffic more closely over the next few days, so >> we'll see how it goes. > > I don't know if this is done already but maybe it's a good idea to > leverage some external monitoring service (such as monitor.us) to > analyse the response time of the server and detect when it goes down. > > These services typically allow setting up a free account with a > limited monitoring (maybe one or two servers). I'm using them to > monitor some sites myself and get e-mail alerts when the web service > goes down or answers very slowly. > > It shouldn't put too much stress on the service itself, as they send 1 > or 2 probes every 15 minutes. > > If this is something we don't have yet, would you like me to set one > up? If so, should it send the alerts to the mailing list? An excellent suggestion. I can look into it. Regarding whether or not the notices are posted here, I leave that up to you all, but there is a mailing list that we use to send this kind of mail to so that the list isn't inundated with cron job reports, wiki page edits, etc. -- Jon ~~~~~~ Manage your subscription at http://www.freelists.org/list/projectaon