How to get an alert when your website or server goes down

Use KeyRoutines' Every … trigger with a Host reachable check over HTTP. Remember stores the last state and Remembered value is compares it, so Show banner only alerts you when the site goes down or comes back up, not every five minutes.

Steps

1. 1

   Check on a schedule

   Add Every … with 5 minutes.

2. 2

   Ask the site

   Add an If with Host reachable, method HTTP, and your site's address.

3. 3

   Up: was it down?

   In the If branch, check Remembered value is siteDown on; if so, Show banner "Site is back" and Remember siteDown as off.

4. 4

   Down: alert once

   In the Else branch, if Remembered value is siteDown is off, Show banner "Site is down" with the needs-attention tone and Remember siteDown as on.

Tips

• Any answer from the site counts as up, even an error page; it checks that the server answers, not that the page is right.
• Use the TCP method to check a game server, database or other port.