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Archive for August, 2007

First Firefox extension from Pingdom

Sometimes websites don’t respond or have other problems. We got tired of missing cool articles and websites for this reason, and then not remembering to revisit them later. That is why we created a Firefox extension that will tell you when a broken website is working again. The problem: There is an annoying problem that [...]

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Data center power usage up 240 percent

Power consumption continues to be a major cost (and general head ache) for data centers. The latest numbers come from a consulting firm called the Uptime Institute. Even though server hardware energy efficiency has improved, it is being offset by the continuous increase in computing power. According to the report, computational performance in servers has [...]

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Backup facilities are for sissies

Ok, let’s retract that headline at once. If you’re a SaaS provider, especially a really big one, having a backup facility makes an awful lot of sense. When you provide a service over the internet you have an obligation to your customers to do your best to assure that your service is always available (or [...]

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Great speakers at SIME 07

SIME, the Scandinavian Interactive Media Event, doesn’t take place until November, but some very interesting speakers have already been announced. The conference also has a seriously snazzy website this year. The list of speakers is looking very promising, with even more to come later. These are the ones announced so far: Niklas Zennström, founder of [...]

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