Comments for Aaron Rosenfeld

Comment on phpWatch 2.0 Development by Mako Web Design

Mako Web Design — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:26:34 +0000

Reiterating Escalating alert levels, very important
I love the fact you are developing on Smarty, I use it all the time.

It should look for key words not just ping. This would make sure a database is running or even that domain name had not expired.

Comment on phpWatch Release Announcement by Brett

Brett — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:54:02 +0000

This is a pretty fantastic script, thanks so much for creating it!

May I make a suggestion? It would be very useful to have a threshold for downtime after which the notification is sent. For example, if my site is down for only 1 minute, I may want to be emailed, but I wouldn’t want to be SMS’d (especially in the middle of the night).

Comment on Computer Science vs. IT by All In One Computer

All In One Computer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:45:19 +0000

I enjoy your site and visit it every day. Keep up the good work.

Comment on Send and Receive SMS with PHP by stefan

stefan — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:08:59 +0000

@franklyn, you can also send emails via your mobile phone, its not a regular text message

Comment on phpWatch 2.0 Development by Warwick

Warwick — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:26:33 +0000

Hi Aaron,

Great Product, I have a couple of suggestions for improvements

1) Check server has connectivity before alerting/logging down time
Check 3 sites (eg google.com, microsoft.com and redhat.com) having the sites user configurable would be best.
If all 3 sites are down/appear to be down it is assumed there is a problem with the servers connectivity and an alert to this effect is sent/attempted to be sent and downtime/alerts are not logged against individual sites.

2) Escalating alerting levels eg
1 missed poll - Log only
2 missed polls (consecutive) - Send Email
5 missed polls (consecutive) - Send Email to different address/addresses.

3) Service Restored Emails

Where an email has been sent advising the service is down an email should be sent advising when it is restored

Comment on phpWatch Release Announcement by Crog » Controla tus servidores con phpwatch

Crog » Controla tus servidores con phpwatch — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:08:33 +0000

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Comment on phpWatch 2.0 Development by ArleyM

ArleyM — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:03:29 +0000

Bring it on!

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Comment on Send and Receive SMS with PHP by Franklyn

Franklyn — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:19:45 +0000

I’ve been doing research on receiving content by sms and stumbled upon your website . How do you send a text message to an email address ?

“I quickly sent a text-message from my phone to sms@aaron-rosenfeld.com and sure enough I had “Message Received!””

My cellphone won’t even allow me to type letters sender field.