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Main on December 13th, 2007 by Pingdom
Usually downtime on the internet is a Bad Thing ™, whether it is network downtime or server downtime or any other malfunction.
But let’s face it, there are some things we would happily see go down.
Spam servers
If spam would end, even for just a while, the mail servers of the world would heave a collective sigh of relief. Whatever software that is making those spam botnets possible is also welcome to crash.
Spam blogs
Sometimes it seems like there are more spam blogs than real blogs. They even have a name of their own these days: splogs.
Phishing sites
Who in their right mind would want these around?
Your competition
Be honest now. Admit that you can’t help but smile just a little bit if your competition’s website goes down for a while.
Spyware backends
No, we don’t want you to phone home! Servers that collect data from spyware are more than welcome to go down permanently, thank you very much.
ECHELON
Big Brother could use a break, don’t you think? They are working so hard.
That rounds off our little list. Care to add some of your own?
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Main on February 8th, 2012 by Pingdom
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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Main on February 8th, 2012 by Pingdom
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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Main on February 7th, 2012 by Pingdom
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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Main on February 6th, 2012 by Pingdom
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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Main on February 3rd, 2012 by Pingdom
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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Jonathan
December 14th, 2007 at 6:43 am
http://www.microsoft.com! *evil grin*
I.Owens
December 17th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
I would like to see The so called `FREE` websites crash you must know the one`s I mean. You know the one`s I mean, it takes two pages to register and just when you are ready to explore the site , you click the link for next page and it says a special introductory offer of £4.95. How the hell is that bloody free then! That is annyoing!