[Resolved] checking server status

[limeonade]

Hello,

I've just started running a server at home. I want to know if there is some simple code that I can use on a site hosted elsewhere that can check whether my server is online or offline.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[planetsim]

If you can get the IP Address of your webhost you can do a simple ping like function.

(in fact to get the site ip address you can run ping on your domain name)

Once you have that a simple function

function serverStatus() {
  if ($fp = @fsockopen("192.168.2.1", 80, $errno, $err,2)) {
      return true;
    } else {
      return false;
    }
}

You will need to change the 192.168.2.1 to the Ip address of the Site. If it returns true the server is up if false the server is down.

[limeonade]

That's great, I'll give it a shot.

Thanks a lot.

edit: It worked perfectly 😃