Monitors a website's status

Monitor-Website.ps1

# Site to check
$site = "https://www.github.com"
# Seconds between checks
$interval = 2

while ($true) {
    $result = try { Invoke-WebRequest $site -ErrorAction silentlycontinue } catch { $null }
    if ($result.statuscode -eq 200) {
        Write-Host "$site is up" -BackgroundColor green -ForegroundColor white
    } else {
        Write-Host "$site is down" -BackgroundColor red -ForegroundColor white
    }
    Start-Sleep $interval
}