A week or so ago, I posted about a web app, Are My Sites Up.  While that service is good, I found a better one :0)
The script: PHPwatch.
PHPwatch is a service monitor that’s able to send notifications of outages via email or text message.  Here’s a bit from the site:
The purpose of this system is [...]

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Server apps are awesome.  What better way to recycle on old PC than to hook it up to the network, install a couple applications, and make it work for you! 
The only thing that makes me love server side software more is when they offer community editions so you can try them, tweak ‘em and [...]

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URL shorteners are awesome.  The less characters, the better!  But what happens when that server goes down or some network issue prevents people from getting to your links?
Nothing.  Blank pages.
Better yet, why would you want to brand someone elses domain name?  Think about all the traffic and notoriety you’re giving tinyurl and is.gd?  Can you [...]

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Project management software is big money.  For you to have something custom developed, it would run well into the thousands of dollars.  If you decide to go the hosted route, expect to pay about $50 a month for decent stuff.
In this how-to podcast, we’re going to show you how to build your very own project [...]

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Not necessarily the most catchy of titles, but nonetheless.
If you’re running your own web server, you want to make sure your websites are accessible by your visitors.  That way when they show up, they don’t get a time out error or the dreaded ‘page not found’ screen.
For those who are particularly crafty, I’m sure you [...]

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Building your own web server is cool - but oftentimes it requires you spend weeks checking out tutorials and how-tos.  What ends up happening is you find something that looks like it’ll work, get half way through it, and then see it isn’t what you need!
This tutorial is going to show you how to set [...]

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If you geek out with the thought of datacenters and thousands of servers in the room surrounding you, you’ll want to check out this article on Google’s datacenter setup.
In it, we find that Google has been using 12-volt batteries inside each and every server.  Truly a remarkable idea..  Also, Google has been using storage-container server [...]

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Servers are sexy.  They let you do all kinds of crazy things that most ‘normal’ rigs can’t.  That includes data mining and serving web apps and being an email dump for all your random gmail accounts.
But what happens if something goes wrong?  Where is all your data?  Will it rise out of the ashes of [...]

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