Nearly always it’s by “pinging” which may or may not actually use ping. Some server somewhere is sitting there querying the server every minute to see if it responds with a 200 - for the better statuses they’ll try and activate various routes and report whether portions of the server are available.
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Nearly always it’s by “pinging” which may or may not actually use ping. Some server somewhere is sitting there querying the server every minute to see if it responds with a 200 - for the better statuses they’ll try and activate various routes and report whether portions of the server are available.