Thank you. That will definitely help but would not cover the problems I've had recently where one of my suppliers' sites has been up but their services have been failing intermittently.
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Are you sure its a software failure? and not possibly a problem with their hardware? Just something to consider. Dunno what services you are referring to.. but surely if its a semi-standard service there is a method to check for it on a local machine, via something like a mini-port-scan