curl -sSf --max-time 120 'https://websitetomonitor.url' --compressed || echo "do something with alarm on failure"

-s means silent -S show error -f Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors --max-time maximum time allowed for request

Cronjob every 2 minutes

*/2 * * * * /usr/local/bin/check_website.sh

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Configuring the OpenWhisk server

Manually setting up Openwhisk and CouchDB on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 server.

Based on the OpenWhisk Ansible README, which at the time of writing is missing some key steps - hence this new guide.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
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This tutorial assumes you have magento installed

sudo apt-get install libgeoip1 libnginx-mod-http-geoip geoip-database-extra -y

cd /usr/share/GeoIP
mv GeoIP.dat GeoIP.dat.bak 
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