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Main on February 6th, 2008 by Pingdom
To say that there were some noise on the Web when Sun recently bought MySQL for $1 billion would be an understatement, to say the least. It’s the largest open source deal ever, and the latest in a series of large open source acquisitions. We kind of understand why Sun thought MySQL was worth a [...]
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Pingdom on February 6th, 2008 by Pingdom
Pingdom showed up in a lot of places last month, both in press, blogs and forums, including a positive review in Microsoft’s TechNet Magazine and also being on the front page of both Digg and Reddit. We keep growing and January was another good month for us, something we are of course very happy about. [...]
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Main on February 5th, 2008 by Pingdom
In November we posted a list in our blog of old Apple Macs that are being used as web servers. Being an uptime monitoring service, we figured we would monitor their uptime and see how they were performing. The post actually ended up on the front page of Digg, which threw an unexpected amount of [...]
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Main on February 4th, 2008 by Pingdom
We’ve all seen those cool movies with endless lines of toppling domino bricks. However, there is way geekier stuff you can use instead of domino bricks… 1. Actual PCs What do you do if you have 86 extra PCs lying around? You can either give them away, perhaps to poor kids or something. Or you [...]
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