---
title: "Server status checking"
date: "2013-05-10"
path: "/134-server-status-checking.html"
section: "/ramblings"
aliases:
  - "/134"
  - "/134-server-status-checking"
  - "/134.html"
  - "/ramblings/134-server-status-checking.html"
---

This is a simple check script we use on a number of servers to make sure PHP -> Apache -> Server is running ok:

<https://gist.github.com/5553577>

We included the load average and checking IP so that we know some additional info in any error response