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Smart service, smart customers

We take uptime very seriously, and so do our customers.

Why? Because on the Internet, you can’t take anything for granted. There are just too many factors affecting website and service availability. There will be a problem, the questions is only when, and how companies react to resolve it. In other words, any company just trusting that everything will work fine is playing a risky gamble, and sooner or later they will lose.

Smart players
Our customers know that this is not a gamble they should be taking. Instead, they are market leaders that have taken serious measures to provide a reliable service. These measures start with using reliable data centers and Internet connections, powerful servers, qualified staff, extending all the way out to monitoring of their carefully prepared environment. This is where Pingdom comes in. Uptime monitoring is a smart, proactive measure that alerts you of problems the minute they appear, assuring that if there is a problem, it will be as short as possible.

Pingdom customers
Image: This is a small sample of some of our customers: Crazy Egg, 1&1 Internet, dealchecker.co.uk, Axis Communications AB, Mosso, FeedBurner, uk2, Eniro, wikiHow, Alexa Internet, SUMO.tv, Techdirt, 456 Berea St., and Norwegian Cruise Line.

Not just for techies
Pingdom isn’t just for techies, either. We have noticed a trend that VPs, CEOs and other members of management have signed up for our service to arm themselves with an overview of their company’s availability online.

Watching both from the inside and the outside
It’s common for companies to complement their internal server monitoring with Pingdom’s external monitoring, for a complete view of their systems. Pingdom accesses services from the Internet, just like real users do.

Pingdom’s powerful monitoring solution meets the demands of both large and small companies. Our focus is on simplicity and ease of use, hiding unnecessary complexity from our users.

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Up or not? Keep track of your favorite US sports websites

Want to see how your favorite US sports site is doing, if it has a perfect 100% uptime score or not? If you want to check the latest scores and it isn’t working, could it be a problem with your computer or connection, or the site? We’ve got the solution for you!

For some time now we’ve been monitoring 34 major US sports and news sites related to sports. Our recent articles on the Super Bowl are a result of that monitoring.

Now you can look at how these sites are doing yourself on the public reports page for this list of US sports websites.

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Google Maps turns 7 years old – amazing facts and figures

Who has not used Google Maps? Raise your hand! Since the launch 7 years ago, Google Maps has become the de facto map service that users around the world go to for all their mapping needs.

As we say Happy Birthday to Google Maps, read on to find out some of the critical milestones in its history, and some amazing numbers and statistics.

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In 2010, there were just over 1 million secure Internet websites worldwide. Almost half of those, or 446,992 to be exact, were located in the United States.

But in which country can we find the most secure websites in relation to population? The answer may surprise you.

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No news is good news for the Super Bowl website

The New England Patriots held what seemed to be a commanding lead (17-15) with five minutes left of Super Bowl XLVI last night. But the New York Giants came back and managed to win with 21-17.

As exciting as the game sounds, we missed the whole thing, instead spending our time watching the Superbowl.com website.

It turned out to be a rather dull thing to do because the site held up well and there was no downtime at all. The response time also didn’t give away anything significant in terms of online Super Bowl traffic.

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As Super Bowl 46 is approaching, fans will flock to the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, and to TV sets around the world to follow the New York Giants battle it out with the New England Patriots.

Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30EST on Sunday, February 5, and we’re already monitoring Superbowl.com to see how the site will handle the event.

What team will win Super Bowl 46? How will the site cope? We can only wait to find out.

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