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Outages on October 3rd, 2008 by Pingdom
Six Apart’s hosted blogging service TypePad was down for one hour today. Typepad is one of the largest blogging platforms in the world, competing with the likes of Blogger.com and Wordpress.com.
According to our monitoring of Typepad.com (via our Pingdom uptime monitoring service), the website itself was unavailable for 59 minutes, starting at 07:37 a.m. CET. A short 3-minute outage followed 10 minutes later, but the website has been stable after that.
The Typepad.com website uses the same platform as the TypePad blogs, so it’s likely that all blogs were affected to some degree.
The Six Apart status page gave the following information, citing a failed router as the cause:
Update at 12:08AM PDT: Blogs are now loading. We are continuing to monitor TypePad closely.
Midnight: A bad power supply in one of our core routers is preventing some TypePad blogs from displaying. We are onsite working to resolve the problem.
11:40PM: The TypePad application is back online, and we are working to restore blogs currently.
11:28 PM PDT: TypePad is currently down. We are working to restore service and blogs as soon as possible. Updates to follow.
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Main on March 17th, 2010 by Pingdom
Have you ever wondered how much money Google, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Yahoo, Amazon and other tech giants have in the bank? What kind of assets do they have, how much spending money do they have? The vague answer is, “a lot.” But if you want to find out exactly how much, read on.
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Main on March 12th, 2010 by Pingdom
Microsoft and open source, those are two things that traditionally don’t mix. Quite the opposite; the more hardcore members of the open source community tend to view Microsoft as just one step below Satan.
But while much of the open source community has little love for Microsoft, Microsoft is actually trying desperately to send some love back. The Redmond giant may have its own business reasons for doing so, of course, but that doesn’t change the fact that Microsoft is contributing to open source in more ways than most people are aware of.
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Main on March 10th, 2010 by Pingdom
What do Android, Visio, Flash, Hotmail, Google Analytics and Powerpoint all have in common? Can you guess?
The answer is: None of them were created by the companies who now own them. They were acquisitions.
These products have continued to develop at their new homes, but the seed of innovation that sparked an actual, new product came from the outside. The key word here is innovation.
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Main on March 5th, 2010 by Pingdom
We all know Google is huge and their wide range of services are bound to have a fair share of competitors, but you may be surprised just how wide-ranging Google considers its competition to be.
Here below we have included a quote from Google’s latest SEC filing with some very interesting information about what Google has to say about its competition.
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Main on March 4th, 2010 by Pingdom
Big sites and services like Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and many others rely heavily on open source software to run their operations. Happily, this isn’t a one-way street. They are also giving back to the open source community, not just by contributing to existing projects, but sometimes by open sourcing their own internal projects, giving back something completely new.
And what these popular sites can contribute is often quite valuable. Since they tend to be very large, they run big operations and have been forced to create solutions for scalability and performance problems that most other sites simply don’t have to deal with.
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