[Ideas] Website up/down checker

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Hey!

I'm wondering if people would be interested in using a multi-platform website up/down checker. I understand that while there are a multitude of services out there, few provide the following:
  • Extensibility with checking if a site is up or down, (see next),
  • addons for further processing data,
  • cross-platform and 100% portable - Windows, Linux & Mac devices (with self-contained .NET Core),
  • extensive configuration (see figure 1),
  • configurable websites,
  • completely private
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Figure 1: Example effective configuration file.

The checker is nothing brilliant but it provides the freedom of customisation and extensibility. As aforementioned, my current checker permits extensibility through C# & .NET addons, providing further processing abilities and enhancing checks on whether a site is up or down.

Figure 2 shows the console output. All output is configurable to be outputted to a file.

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Figure 2: Example of the program running.

Some planned addons include:

  • Cloudflare support - already implemented in the core program.
  • Async MySQL - essential for implementing website support.
  • Discord webhooks support
  • Further processing - refined logging, only outputting when a site status changes. The program logs every time for debugging & information purposes (can be disabled).

I need ideas & suggestions. If you're looking to try this please feel free to reply, also.
 
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Uptime robot is good enough for most
Thanks for the info.

Looking for constructive suggestions on the application I'm writing, though.
 

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Example of a visual addon (using another addon, soft dependency!):
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Maybe a pop up notification when a site is up/down
 

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Maybe a pop up notification when a site is up/down
I could certainly do that for Windows. For other platforms, where would I suggest I deploy the notifications?
 

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I could certainly do that for Windows. For other platforms, where would I suggest I deploy the notifications?
I recommend asking people to sign up, then they can favourite their most crucial sites. If one of their favourite sites goes down, put out an email to the email address they used to sign up and when the site is back up, send another email. Give users to option to disable these though as they may become annoying. :)
 

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I could certainly do that for Windows. For other platforms, where would I suggest I deploy the notifications?
Not sure how this would work but you could make it a chrome extension where a user inputs a site and a notification would tell the user when the site is up or down? Not a computer geek so whatever I said may not make sense Xd
 

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Not sure how this would work but you could make it a chrome extension where a user inputs a site and a notification would tell the user when the site is up or down? Not a computer geek so whatever I said may not make sense Xd
It makes sense, I just don't know if its necessary. :)
 

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It makes sense, I just don't know if its necessary. :)
Do you know of potential ways of deploying notifications to non-windows platforms?
 
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