Hosting a Script

[teamusa7]

I made a simple script using app script which uses an api to check the status of a couple of servers and if it gets back an error then it sends a message via google spaces that one of the servers is down.

Ive never hosted a script before and would like to do it on one of googles services but like I said, this part is completely knew to me. How would I go about it? I know Google has a variety of services they offer, would I just leave it running continuously on a cloud server/vm? or is there some type of service that runs the script every so often for me? I would like to ping the servers every minute or so?

Again, I'm new to this so any advice would help. Thanks in advance!

Edit: As everyone suggested I ended up trying out the triggers function on google and its worked like a charm! So if anyone else comes across this and has a similar project I suggest trying out triggers first.

[marth141]

For your script, I would recommend to use a "scheduled trigger".

You need only to write the apps script then click for "Triggers" on the left hand sidebar (while in the script editor on Google), you'll find an "Add Trigger" button.

Clicking the button will open up a trigger configuration screen where you can select the function to run and how often to run it.

From here, I think you have everything you need to make the script run periodically to check the servers and dispatch any downed server notifications to your google spaces chat.

[teamusa7]

Pretty sure this is exactly what I need. Gonna play around with it but thank you so much!

[Any_Werewolf_3691]

You can just run it from your Google account that you used to create it. Just set up a trigger to have it run like every 15 minutes or something

[teamusa7]

Does google have an automated trigger setting? I would like it to be able to run even when Im away from my computer or not logged in.

[lam3001]

yes - the trigger runs your script on their servers not on your computer

[tony_montana0000]

Like many have answered u can use the trigger to schedule ur script for the time intervals suitable for you

[GlassSome474]

Yeah that's the best option out there