I think the poster is whining. If you want your shit up that much, then you should have more than one server with some load balancing in place. From my experience, you're lucky to have gotten any prior notice to an outage.
no offense Battus.
betterbeup.com -- cool idea. Perhaps you should add some request restrictions to status.php, otherwise it becomes easy for someone else to monitor your servers. Nice use of XML, is any of your code open source?
?xml version="1.0" ?><root><general plugin_version="1.4" tts_version="2.1.0" tts_release_date="2003-11-15" tts_install_date="" os="Linux" hostname="betterbeup.com (ns2.eggdns.com)" ip_addr="64.159.65.23" uptime="21503965.26" users="0" mysqld="1" /><network><lo rx_bytes="1465318098" rx_packets="257211667" rx_errs="0" rx_drop="0" tx_bytes="1465318098" tx_packets="257211667" tx_errs="0" tx_drop="0" /><eth0 rx_bytes="3901526569" rx_packets="2868133161" rx_errs="0" rx_drop="0" tx_bytes="1157565421" tx_packets="983402865" tx_errs="0" tx_drop="0" /></network><cpu_info><cpu0 model="Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz" mhz="2660.23" cache="512 KB" bogomips="5308.41" /></cpu_info><loadavg val1="1.66" val5="1.91" val15="1.90" /><memory><ram total="1012676" used="985680" shared="0" buffers="115080" cached="735284" /><swap total="1044208" used="26600" /><devswap><swp0 dev="/dev/sdb2" total="522104" used="26600" /><swp1 dev="/dev/sda2" total="522104" used="0" /></devswap></memory><filesystems><vol0 disk="/dev/md0" size="34756488" used="32350360" mount="/" fstype="ext2" /><vol1 disk="none" size="506336" used="0" mount="/dev/shm" fstype="tmpfs" /></filesystems></root>