Server status

[guest]

does anyone know of any fast methods of seeing if a server is online or offline!?!?

Im looking for some fast methods because the php scripts ive tried so far take a while to load. Ive tried Http(port 80) and Ftp(port 21) and theve both been slow so does anyone else have any suggestions?

[thorpe]

just ping the server.

[guest]

im talkin about doing it from a webpage... not myself but so the 'other server

what im tring to do is that if the server is down the links wont display on my page to the other server but if it is up the links will display

[rehfeld]

you can ping using php

still, its going to slow your script down, and pinging a few other servers everytime a user requests your page is not efficient at all.

i would create a database to hold the values of the servers, and whether they are offline or not.

then create a small php script which will ping those servers, and update the status in the db. run that script via cron every 10min or whatever interval you want.

then from your script which displays the links, you can just do a quick db call to see if they are online or not.

[guest]

um could someone mabe help me with the scripts?

[rehfeld]

Originally posted by guest
um could someone mabe help me with the scripts?

what do you want help with?

[robert_w_ark]

just make ur server call a file using fopen with reading mode and calculate time

[guest]

Originally posted by robert_w_ark
just make ur server call a file using fopen with reading mode and calculate time

yea i need help with that! i sorta get the fopen part but idk how to do the reading and calculate?