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I'm always annoyed at myself and others at work when our site goes down for a period of time and we didn't get some kind of notification telling me so... considering that this has apparently been happening for at least an hour, I'm feeling a whole lot better now.

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Pingdom tends to work pretty well.

+1 on Pingdom but don't forget to test actual content and not just a "200 OK" server response. It's common to test if a site is UP but not if the content it's serving is correct. Make sure to content match because Oracle.com is returning a "200 OK" status even though this probably isn't what Oracle considers "OK".

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