How to Monitor Uptime of 20 Websites (Ping or HTTP) in Node.js/RoR

Question

What\'s the best way to ping a list of 20 websites every 5 minutes (for example) in order to know if the site responds with HTTP 202 or not?

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Answer 1

If you're curious, I've created an app called Pinger that does this. It's built on Ruby on Rails and Resque:

https://github.com/austinthecoder/pinger