simple website health check script

Original post: http://serverfault.com/questions/176436/simple-web-server-monitoring-alive wget --timeout=3 --tries=1 http://serverfault.com if [ $? -ne 0 ];then echo "Site Down" | mail -s "Site Down" admin@yourdomain.com fi to have the mail sent without content just change the mail -s "Site Down" admin@yourdomain.com to mail -s "Site Down" admin@yourdomain.com