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Website Uptime Monitoring

Simple cron job to check if a website is reachable.

This command sends a HEAD request to your website to check if it returns a 200 OK status. You can combine this with a conditional logic (&& or ||) to send an email or trigger an alert if the site is down.

Cron Schedule

Every 5 Minutes*/5 * * * *

Runs at minutes 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55 of every hour.

Learn more about Every 5 Minutes

Command to Run

Copy and paste this command into your crontab or automation script

curl -Is https://yoursite.com | head -n 1

This command will run according to the cron schedule above.

Implementation Examples

Here are code examples for implementing this cron job in different programming languages:

Unix/Linux Crontab*/5 * * * * /path/to/script.sh

Python (with schedule library)schedule.every(5).minutes.do(job)

Node.js (with node-cron)

cron.schedule('*/5 * * * *', () => {
  console.log('Running every 5 minutes');
});

Go (with robfig/cron)c.AddFunc("*/5 * * * *", func() { fmt.Println("Run every 5 mins") })

GitHub Actions Workflow- cron: "*/5 * * * *"

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