If you sign up for Pingdom uptime monitoring using a Firefox browser you will get a whole year for free (saving you $119.40). The offer is valid until Saturday. Sounds interesting? Visit the Pingdom sign-up page! (You don’t need a credit card.)

We are celebrating the successful release of our Mr Uptime Firefox extension by offering one year of Pingdom’s uptime monitoring service for FREE to all Firefox users. The normal cost is $119.40.

This is also a way for us to promote Firefox some more. Firefox is the default browser around the Pingdom offices and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Above: Images taken from the Pingdom sign-up page.

All you webmasters out there: If you’re not already using Firefox, now might be a good time to start.

What’s the deal?

No commitment and no credit card necessary. Just sign up for free.

What do I get?

• Monitor uptime and response time of 5 websites, servers or services
• 20 free SMS alerts
• Unlimited email alerts
• 1-minute monitoring resolution at no extra cost
• Monitoring from multiple locations around the world.
• Uptime and response time statistics

And a whole lot more…

Go sign up!

P.S. We have set a limit of 1,000 accounts, so it’s first come, first served!

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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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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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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