While building web applications, it’s often important to keep an eye on the other services running on your server. Having access to the current status of public servers can empower your applications to make decisions and respond to problems automatically. Acknowledging a service is offline can also save endless support emails. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to keep track of your server status by scanning ports on your server with PHP.
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