>>>I'm looking for the ability to send a phone call over the net from a Visual FoxPro application. Is there such a Web site that will allow me to do that or should I use a modem for that?
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>>You may want to do a search for VOIP (Voice over IP). I thought of www.dialpad.com (they used to have free long distance via the internet).
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>Basically, what I need is the ability for a robot application to send a phone call in case something goes wrong with a server. So, a robot application might run as long as the ability to read a DBF on a specific server is working. If not, a phone call would be initiated to a specific local number and send some garbage. At least, I would know by answering the call that this is coming from my application or just by looking at the displayed number.
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>I think I might be better to just plug a line over there and send the data from a modem.

What about sending a notice to a pager, or a text message to your cell phone instead? For instance anyone can send a text message to my cell from this page
http://www.rogers.com/english/wireless/sendpcs.html Your cell company probably has a similiar service or webpage.

The sever application could do some simple IE automation to fill in your phone number and then put in a specific message "chat server down" or a generic message "check the UT server". This might be a little more robust that relying on a special modem to be installed on the server.

Another option, have you looked at Web Monitor from WestWind?
http://www.west-wind.com/webmonitor.asp
This system could send an email to your cell phone with a message that the server is down.