The first release of touchtheWire, a new website monitoring tool, is now available for download at the Opera Community site.
Warning: this currently only works in Opera 9 Beta 2. The latest weekly fixes a bug with selecting the refresh interval, but prevents widgets from accessing arbitrary web server, which is exactly what this widget needs to do. I'll update when this is fixed.
Touch the red wire, see if it's live! This is a flexible website monitoring tool - up to 10 pages at a time, configurable audio alerts, custom update frequencies and status reports.
Use it to check on your favourite sites when the server monkeys are playing up, or monitor your own servers.
An alert sound (if selected) will play when a site goes off-line, even if the widget is running in the background. Select different update frequencies for different sites, or temporarily disable any of them with a click.
Different status icons show whether the server is up, down, or 'up but not responding correctly'.