Paging The Webmaster

April 1996 / The Byte Network Project / E-Mail Adventures / Paging The Webmaster

The BYTE Site has so far experienced remarkably little downtime, but there have been a few outages ranging from 4 to 12 hours. Now, our Unix development server pings the primary NT server every 10 minutes and, if there's no answer, sends an E-mail alert to my Notable Technologies' pager. Insane dedication on my part? Or maybe just a way to outgeek editor in chief Rafe Needleman, who also uses Notable's AirNote service ? Joking aside , it's helpful to always know the status of the server. I won't drive to Peterborough at 4:00 a.m. to reboot a server. I will, however, investigate an out-of-band remote restarter for those few occasions that require a reboot.

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