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<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>In
writing up some stuff for the thread "how to notify via sms", I
included a few notes about how I do external monitoring -- basically using
shell scripts cronned to run every minute on a couple of generic web hosting
companies.<br>
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This is effective, but limited.<br>
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I used to have a vendor doing external monitoring on approx. 15 different web
addresses and externally-available services (SMTP and the like), but they charged
big money and weren't very reliable. Also, the particular monitoring
program that they used was a little flakey.<br>
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I'm wondering whether there's anyone one there that does</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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