Can you hear me now?
So this blog has been a little bit up and down recently, partly because the Feather installation is overdue an update, and partly because the server could do with being rebuilt, but I figured that rather than me finding out the site has been down for a day and then manually booting it, there must be an automated way of picking up these issues and restarting the site. Sure enough, there is!
God is a great gem that allows Ruby scripts to be written to describe the configuration, settings and scenarios required for monitoring a particular process, and to outline the steps to take when certain conditions are met. I was able to knock up a script to reboot the app server for this blog whenever it doesn’t get a 200 response back from the main index, and I think that’ll do the trick nicely!
So if you see this blog is down, just give it a minute or so - God is on the case and will fix the issue shortly :-) Thanks Mojombo!
