SMS alert system
Posted by Graham Stratton Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:54:54 GMT
I decided that I need a system to alert me when one of my websites is down. The obvious technology for this is SMS, so I thought I’d look at how to do this.
There’s a very details tutorial and background to SMS at http://www.developershome.com/sms/ – however, it doesn’t suggest a good SMS gateway provider in the UK. Google ads suggested fastsms.co.uk (there’s something called fastsms III which I think is unrelated).
FastSMS have a package designed for developers, which can send SMS messages either from emails or from HTTP requests. Details are at http://www.fastsms.co.uk/packages/velocity-direct.html
So far I’ve only got as far as signing up, but I don’t think sending an HTTP with the correct parameters will cause too many problems.
Have a look at www.totext.net as well. I’ve been usign these guys for some time now to do the same sort of this – server alerting and whatnot – must admit that they’ve been great for me so far :)