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Outages on December 4th, 2008 by Pingdom
At 8:38 a.m. EST yesterday, December 3, the Technorati website all of a sudden started refusing access to all visitors, responding with an HTTP 403 error (access denied). The problem was not resolved until 9:44 a.m.
During this period, the website did occasionally come back, but the problems started again almost immediately. In total, the Technorati website was unavailable for 55 minutes.
Presumably someone at Technorati was making modifications on the backend and mistakenly triggered this. We can imagine that there was some frantic activity over at the Technorati offices while this lasted.
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Main on March 17th, 2010 by Pingdom
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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
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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
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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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Jose
December 13th, 2008 at 8:27 am
I am surprised not having heard more than this post in Pingdom about the tremendous problems that Technorati is having.
I am located in Spain and I started to suffer its loading home problems yesterday and having their response message “The monster is having backend problems”. It happened during a “join in” process which really took me too much to complete.
I think they should show a message about this maintenance matters and avoid us to keep comming back to see if it has been solved.
Appart from that the Technorati information that is provided by them is always excelent, it has been a real shame seeing this lack of prevision on their side.
Congrats for your great ping blog.