A simple tcp monitor ?
henriklied: Have you looked at god [1]? If you're into Ruby, you'll love it.I use it in a medium to high volume production environment [2], and it has done a very good job at getting our lighttpd and nginx back up on the air whenever we experience peaks above the normal workload.[1] http://god.rubyforge.org/[2] http://video.nrkbeta.no/