Tech: Is Mudcat alive?

Subject: Tech: Is Mudcat alive?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 12:07 AM

Wondering if Mudcat is up or down? I'm just a user, but it's worth telling about this.

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Subject: RE: Tech: Is Mudcat alive?
From: Bert
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 12:21 AM

Or you could just try it. www.mudcat.org

Subject: RE: Tech: Is Mudcat alive?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 12:46 AM

Taking into account the number of threads started here and in the help forum about whether the cat is up or down, I would have thought that people were doing that before they start those threads - this util may be also of use to the techie poeple who keep the cat running too...

Subject: RE: Tech: Is Mudcat alive?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 02:04 AM

Thanks for this one. I don't see it as being particularly useful for users trying to work out whether Mudcat is up or down but I have a use for it. I run 2 websites and host a couple of others.

I'll give it a try and set it up for something like 1/2 hourly tests on each server. The shared servers are monitored by my ISP but it could be handy to know if there have been any access problems.

Subject: RE: Tech: Is Mudcat alive?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 02:22 AM

Perhaps Mudcat users need only fire it up when they really want to know about Mudcat (or Mudchat!) - otherwise it could add too much of a load on the poor little server! - at least you will get a 'second opinion' if you are on your own...

:-)

Subject: RE: Tech: Is Mudcat alive?
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 03:35 PM

if I dont get a response from Mudcat, or it seems slow, I just try a couple of other regular places to see if it's MY ISP or just Mudcat...


"Karen's Power Tools" are really neat things, if YOU need and/or use those gadgets...they are free and well-written, but many folks simply don't want to know some of the stuff they monitor....and they were 'bit' more useful for Win98 and 2000, than they are for Win XP, which has some of those tricks built in.