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We have just added three new dedicated check types for monitoring mail servers, one each for SMTP, POP3 and IMAP. For these check types, the connection to the specified mail server uses the selected email protocol (SMTP, POP3 or IMAP), something which gives you a very reliable indication that the mail server is up and [...]
Google News and Yahoo News are the two largest news aggregators (and news search engines) in the world. Both Google and Yahoo earn their money mainly through advertising, and these websites have so much traffic and so many page views that any downtime they have will be very expensive since it becomes the equivalent of [...]
Back in March (March 27, to be exact) our uptime monitoring network was performing 100,000 checks per hour. This means 2.4 million tests of websites and servers every day. We keep saying that we are growing, and guess what? In the six months since then, this number has increased to 287,909 checks per hour, which [...]
Myspace and Facebook are the two giants in the social network arena. We let them face off in three categories: the number of searches in Google, website traffic, and availability. All to see which one comes out on top. Website traffic How much traffic do they have? The answer is “a lot”. According to Alexa.com [...]
Last week we (Pingdom) released a survey of the uptime of Google’s localized homepages for 32 countries. It turned out to be very popular. So who wrote about it? Here are a few examples: eWeek, Times Online, PC Magazine, NetworkWorld, CNET News.com, CNET Webware, TechCrunch, GigaOM, WebProNews, IDG in Sweden and in Brazil, IT Wire, [...]
(To be honest, we added this feature almost a month ago, but here is a proper introduction.) Sometimes you may want to temporarily pause monitoring of some of your websites or servers, or you may want an easy way to temporarily disable alerts to one or several of your contact persons (or all of them!). [...]
TechCrunch was one of the places that wrote about the Google uptime report we published last week, where Google’s Brazilian homepage turned out to have the best uptime. Interestingly enough, it looks like a Brazilian Google engineer has commented on the article. See screenshot from TechCrunch below. For those who prefer plain text, here is [...]
