[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Currently, there are a bunch of website monitors available,
some are free, but I couldn’t find any that was really simple and
satisfy our requirements. We wanted a monitor that would connect to
our site ThemBid.com every minute, retrieve a pixel image, and
notify us if it retrieved something else or if it couldn’t be
retrieved. As a result we wrote this simple monitor. If you want to
use it, you need to have access to a server that has a task
scheduler such as Cron and PHP support. Most shared hosting
packages have this…”