This site is designed to take advantage of CSS. If you are seeing this, CSS must not be available or enabled in your browser. Everything should still work, but won't be as pretty. :)

Yes, you can do this by adding a test for a frequently-updating page, like http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/, which changes every second. Then check it at whatever frequency you want to be e-mailed, and have an E-mail notifier for changes. You can customize the e-mail message to say "I'm alive!" or whatever you like.