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Outages on October 16th, 2008 by Pingdom
Wikipedia, the über-popular online encyclopedia, went down briefly today. It was unavailable for about 15 minutes, starting at 11:17 CET according to our Pingdom monitoring.
The service was responding with HTTP error 503 (service unavailable) and displayed an error page stating that the Wikimedia servers were experiencing a technical problem (screenshot below).
Wikimedia.org was also down, indicating that Wikimedia had some form of general problem that likely affected all its websites, not just Wikipedia.
It should be mentioned that Wikipedia has a very good availability overall, having only been offline for a total of about 1 hour and 30 minutes in the last six months. They have an uptime of 99.97%.
Want to test your site every minute?
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Main on February 9th, 2012 by Pingdom
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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Main on February 8th, 2012 by Pingdom
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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Main on February 8th, 2012 by Pingdom
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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Main on February 7th, 2012 by Pingdom
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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Main on February 6th, 2012 by Pingdom
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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Jimmy
October 16th, 2008 at 9:33 am
See https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Server_admin_log:
The entries in question:
# 09:19 JeLuF: deployed squid.conf with an error in it. All squid instances exited.
# 09:22 – 09:52 mark, Tim, JeLuF: initial attempts to bring the squids back up failed due to incorrect permissions on the recreated swap logs. Most were back up by around 09:32, except newer knams and yaseo squids which were missing from the squids_global node group. The node group was updated and the remainder of the squids brought up around 09:52.
Goes to show that human error is one of the most common causes of downtime.