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SMF Support => SMF 2.0.x Support => Topic started by: guldam on May 06, 2016, 02:36:18 PM

Title: Email notification when forum goes down
Post by: guldam on May 06, 2016, 02:36:18 PM
Is there a way to send me an email alert when my forum is down?

Yesterday my Settings.php and Settings_bak.php file somehow got wiped out. I'd like to know when something like this happens.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

GulDam
Title: Re: Email notification when forum goes down
Post by: Illori on May 06, 2016, 02:38:57 PM
that is a bug in SMF. usually if the database looses connection you get an email, if those files are wiped clean there is nothing there to send the email.
Title: Re: Email notification when forum goes down
Post by: Tonyvic on May 06, 2016, 03:39:18 PM
I use the free website monitoring service from http://www.montastic.com/ (http://www.montastic.com/)
It checks up to 3 url's every 30 minutes and sends an email if any go down, then again when they are back up.
There are paid versions which will check every 5 minutes also.