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 two-fold: it allows administrators to easily check the status of many different services running on any number of servers and also allows developers to interface with the query and notification APIs.

To view a quick demo, click here!  It really is impressive stuff! And totally open source :0)  Let me know what you guys think!

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