I finally did it. I took notes as I built a server and am posting it (mainly so I don’t forget). In case someone wants to print this, I left most of the URLs in text so you’d be able to read them. So here it goes.

When I was at Rails Conf in June, I stumbled upon a great little service for monitoring the status of your servers, Montastic This is a very lightweight, free service where you simply add URLs. The service pings each of your servers every 10 minutes and sends you an email if one of them is down.