I have completed part 1 of 4 of my project. But before I start part 2, I want to make sure that from now on, I know exactly when my app is down, since they will be all deployed on the cloud (and I have no idea if the cloud is happy or sad). Therefore I'm going to build http://www.404hound.com. The idea is simple -- use a screen scraping tool every X minute to look for certain keywords which would indicate that the site is up. If it isn't, then I will send a message to the site owner.
I'm going to do this on Node because I think it'll be great for this kind of app and I think Javascript is cool. I have my libraries picked out:
- Node.js / Express (for serving)
- Node.io (for screen scraping)
- Jade (for rendering templates)
- ampq (for messaging)
- node_mailer (for emailing using SendGrid)
Stay tuned for all the experiences I'll have with node =)
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