Most of us have at least one computer at home, some may even have a few. And then there are the ones that almost run their own data center at home, for private use.

We had a discussion here at Pingdom when one of our staff members re-configured his home network and added lots of fancy stuff. Well, we thought his network was cool before we found these.

Here’s a list of our favorites:

Lay it out nice

This diagram is so good looking and they have a network which seems to be all over the house.

A rack in the garage

Not everyone has a 42U server rack in the garage and VPN to the office.

Dual ISPs and a bunch of machines

Both ADSL and cable Internet connections powers the gadgets in this home.

Nicely laid out floor by floor

Clean overview of all computers in the house floor by floor.

The home that has everything almost

Everything seems to be able to be controlled through the network in this house.

Wireless IP camera in the barn

If you have a barn you should have a wireless IP camera there.

Wires and servers

Some servers in the office with tape backups.

A tech wizards network

These servers covers the need of a small company.

Two racks with servers at home

It look’s more like a hosting company then some ones home network.

A home filled with Apples

Mostly Apple products seems to be allowed in this home.

If you have a impressive home network you can upload it at Rate My Network Diagram and post it in our comments.

There’s no denying that Google Chrome continues to be the darling of the web browser market. And as we predicted in July last year, Chrome overtook Firefox around November 2011.

So now the question is, when will Google also wrestle down Internet Explorer, and become the undisputed king of the browser world? In December 2011, Chrome 15 became the most popular browser in the world, beating Internet Explorer 8, but if you combine all IE versions, Microsoft still holds the number 1 spot.

Equipped with the latest web browser statistics from StatCounter, we set out to see when Chrome is likely to achieve more than 50% market share.

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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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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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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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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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