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What if you could have a type of monitoring that would store a value of your choosing, and a status of your choosing, based on a script on your servers? A kind of “universal” check type that you can customize as you wish on your end. Well, now you can. We have added a new, [...]
Every OS out there can be updated over the Internet. In fact, this functionality is a critical and important part of the OS, and updates are often done in an automated fashion. Windows has its Windows Update, Mac OS X has its Apple Software Update and Ubuntu has its main repositories. We have measured the [...]
According to a recent survey by the Swedish computer magazine PC för Alla, women seem to be consistently more frustrated than men when it comes to computers and the Web. (For those of you who don’t speak Swedish, “PC för Alla” translates to “PC for Everyone”.) The highest frustration levels are understandably brought on by [...]
On June 23-24, O’Reilly held the 2008 edition of Velocity, a conference focused on web performance and operations. Unfortunately no one from Pingdom was able to attend (much to our great dismay considering the subject matter), but luckily for us the slides for a lot of the presentations have been made public. We have scoured [...]
Not long ago we all used an ordinary encyclopedia when we needed to find information about something. Today the Internet can give us the answer to (almost) anything. When it comes to getting the facts on basically anything between heaven and earth, one particular site really stands out. Yes, Wikipedia, we are talking about you. [...]
A year ago the term “cloud computing” wasn’t even on the radar. Now it’s everywhere. Microsoft is doing it, Amazon is doing it, IBM is doing it, Google is doing it, Sun is doing it, Apple is doing it, HP is doing it, everyone is doing it. We thought this would be interesting in relation [...]
