Strange problem

[Geoff Shang]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Amos Shapira wrote:

> I have no idea how much this is related but we maintain a virtual host
> with VPSLink and received an e-mail from them about the hosting server
> being rebooted for maintenance about 13 hours ago.

We actually moved off VPSLink, the mention of it there was due to the 
problems we used to experience there.

> As for monitoring it - you might want to check services like pingdom
> and gomez to "ping" your server. You can define checks for multiple
> things so, for instance, it can access a specified URL every X minutes
> and look for a specific string in the output, allowing you to trigger
> a CGI script.

Thanks for this, could be useful.

Geoff.