title: Is it possible to ping a server from Javascript?
body: <p>I'm making a web app that requires that I check to see if remote servers are online or not. When I run it from the command line, my page load goes up to a full 60s (for 8 entries, it will scale linearly with more).</p>
  
  <p>I decided to go the route of pinging on the user's end. This way, I can load the page and just have them wait for the "server is online" data while browsing my content.</p>
  
  <p>If anyone has the answer to the above question, or if they know a solution to keep my page loads fast, I'd definitely appreciate it.</p>