http://blog.handwire.com/articles/2006/04/13/server-woes en-us 40 A blog by Handwire <p>We have been having a lot of issues with keeping our lighttpd sites up and running on <a href="http://textdrive.com/">TextDrive</a> (even with a @reboot cron job set). There is a ruby script called <a href="http://jlaine.net/blog/57/keeping-your-lighttpd-up-on-textdrive-part-ii">daedalus</a> that can continually check for your lighttpd process, and if it&#8217;s not found attempt to restart it, but due to overuse the TextDrive admins <a href="http://weblog.textdrive.com/article/185/happy-thanksgiving-daedalus-is-for-dinner">banned it from their servers</a>.</p> <p>We decided that the easiest thing to do was just use Ruby&#8217;s own Net::HTTP module to request the headers for our blog every 10 minutes or so. If we don&#8217;t get back a &#8216;HTTP 200&#8217; we know something&#8217;s wrong and run a shell script that SSHs into our server and restarts lighttpd. Since we&#8217;re just requesting the headers the bandwidth won&#8217;t be a problem and the resource load on TextDrive is no more than a regular web request.</p> <p>If you&#8217;d like to use it for yourself, <a href="http://blog.handwire.com/files/ping_textdrive.rb">feel free</a>.</p> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:35:00 -0400 urn:uuid:0915a7a9-b719-4b8f-a2cd-f04f77e6786d Skip http://blog.handwire.com/articles/2006/04/13/server-woes textdrive ruby server ssh http://blog.handwire.com/articles/trackback/56