What services should one use to insure that a site is actually running as desired? What are the things I should be checking for to make sure my web application is actually running? I have the system health-check sent over daily, but what can I do to make sure my application is available. I know there are services out there. Any ideas of what the options are? I have an apache app, running on mysql and php.

Hello. I am looking for an opensource framework similar to that of Ruby On Rails, but for PHP. What recommendations do you have?

I have a website with content I have aggregated over time. I am concerned it might be scraped and abused. I do need to, however, make the content accessible for bots like googlebot and others. Is there any plugin that I can use that will help me prevent and block malicious scrapers and bots? How can I set up a policy to control this and manage this? Any experience? I have an apache webserver running a php webapp.

Hi - I have just inherited a large php project, and the documentation is sparse. Also, there are a lot of queries that need to be optimized and urls that need to be tweaked. I am looking for an easy way to analyze the code using an 'ideally' free/opensource product. I am also contemplating just writing an analyzer myself that will go through the spider the files and dump out a report. Any ideas of tools I could use?

Any suggestions for a PHP-based multiple file upload tool that works well with Drupal. Most of what I've found is java based. I'm looking to deploy a photo sharing application on drupal that allows the user to select multiple files (upto 20 files), rotate the thumbnails and track the % completed/remaining. Any help would be much appreciated!