Sam Nurmi, Pingdom’s founder and CEO, has written an article for Center Networks about the importance of uptime to web startups. It goes into detail about how downtime will affect your users, and in what ways it could end up costing you both growth and money, as well as put a serious dent in your [...]

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The web hosting company 1&1 asked 1,600 UK consumers (via survey company Tickbox.net) about their reactions to slow or broken websites, with some very interesting results. For example, nine out of ten people would switch to a competitor’s website if a company’s website fails to load. The survey results also show that consumers are generally [...]

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This month we continue our unique survey of website downtime on the internet. We have used data from Pingdom GIGRIB to calculate the average website downtime in April (based on over 2,000 sites). We have also estimated the downtime of the web as a whole. The average website downtime The average website downtime in April [...]

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Several of our customers have asked us for “monitored by Pingdom” buttons. Your wish is our command. We have now created a couple of small banners (or buttons) that you can add to your website to show that you are using Pingdom uptime monitoring. It’s one way to show your visitors that you take uptime [...]

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As we reported just over two weeks ago, we were having some problems with slow report pages in the Pingdom control panel. (Lately we have been growing faster than we ever expected.) This problem has been resolved and the report pages are now very fast and responsive. We have optimized our databases and our report [...]

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If you’re curious about what it takes to get started with Pingdom uptime monitoring, look no further. We have added three short instruction videos to the Pingdom website. Why short? Because getting started with Pingdom takes no more than five minutes from start to finish, including the sign-up. The videos show you the sign-up process, [...]

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