I have been working on a little network status page in my free time lately.
It is a simple wordpress plugin that I developed that allows me to check discourse (Our forum), Nextcloud, TeamSpeak and Minecraft Servers and display their current status and some more info (if available) neatly as a little status box.
You can find the page here.
While I am still working on it, the basic functionality is there and it works, at least as far as I tested it. This will obviously not help if the hardware or internet fails, as its all running on the same server, but if the homepage is not reachable, chances are nothing is.
Future plans?
I do have some plans and features that I want to get working, but as this is a little passion free time side project of a passion free time project, it might take some time.
Specifically, I want to hook into AMPs API to gather information about any game server hosted on our network. While I have a little widget for Minecraft, I don’t want to write a new function for each and every new game that I want to monitor a server for.
I do have a version that communicates with AMP, but I am having some trouble with AMPs API and I am in communication with their developers for that. But again, it will take time.
I recently showed this status page to a friend of mine and he told me something rather funny:
You know how google develops some stuff, gets people to like it, only to kill it? You start developing stuff, get people to like, only to never finish it.
Let’s see if this status page suffers the same fate or if it stays as a “beta” page for the rest of time.
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