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Pingdom on May 12th, 2008 by Pingdom
The basic premise is this: You have a website you want to monitor. It’s important to you that it works, and you need to know right away when there is a problem with it. This article will show you how you can set up highly detailed monitoring of your website using the Pingdom uptime monitoring [...]
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Main on May 9th, 2008 by Pingdom
There has been a lot of talk about container data centers lately (sometimes also called modular data centers). Most of the time we are only presented with an image of a branded shipping container, but let’s face it, all the interesting stuff is on the inside! So, since we were curious, we here at Pingdom [...]
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Main on May 8th, 2008 by Pingdom
There is no denying that there are some significant cultural differences between East and West. Since we here at Pingdom deal a lot with web hosting companies and are generally interested in the hosting industry, we have on occasion stumbled upon some Asian hosting websites which to our Western eyes have a very different look [...]
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Main on May 8th, 2008 by Pingdom
We started using FeedBurner just a couple of months ago. This has allowed us to get some reasonable statistics on the number of people who have subscribed to the Royal Pingdom RSS feed. We are happy to say that the numbers have been growing, slowly but steadily. Lately, our blog has started to go above [...]
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Main on May 6th, 2008 by Pingdom
This survey shows how much 16 of the largest and most popular social network sites have been unavailable during the first four months of 2008. How much has MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, LiveJournal and many others been offline? Read on to find out. The monitoring for this survey was done using the Pingdom uptime monitoring [...]
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Pingdom on May 5th, 2008 by Pingdom
The Swedish magazine Internetworld, part of the global IT news service IDG, publish a big web hosting survey once a year where the 15 largest web hosting companies in Sweden are evaluated based on uptime and quality of service. Two years running, we have helped IDG design and perform this test, handling all monitoring tasks [...]
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