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Main on April 16th, 2009 by Pingdom
We’ve been offering the possibility to monitor DNS servers for a while. So we were glad to see an article about DNS services and Pingdom’s DNS check functionality done by John Philip Green, CTO of Savvica.
Savvica is a Pingdom customer and they are behind the popular social learning network Learnhub. Since Learnhub receives a high amount of traffic they are constantly looking into scaling and performance issues.
Monitoring DNS
Savvica had already created a Pingdom DNS check for their current DNS server which ran BIND hosted on Amazon EC2. By looking at the Pingdom data they could see that the time for DNS lookups varied greatly and decided to start looking for a third party DNS solution.
Using Pingdom’s DNS monitoring functionality they started to monitor a few selected DNS services to see the results and use as a guideline for selecting a new DNS hosting provider.
The results were a great help to Savvica in their selection of a new DNS hosting provider and it also shows how useful it is to monitor your DNS servers to see trends and evaluate how the DNS infrastructure affects your website’s visitors.
We highly recommend John’s article on how to compare hosted DNS providers since it contains interesting information for all website owners.
If you’re interested in starting to monitor your DNS server(s), take a look at our original post about the DNS monitoring possibilities that Pingdom offers.
If you have any questions regarding this, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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Mobile podcast on February 9th, 2012 by Pingdom
Pingdom’s Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff.
In this show, Saleh also gives us an update on the pending approval of his Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter client. We also talked about Nokia’s recent financial results, if Google Chrome can hit more than 50% market share this year, and the recent privacy-blunder by the guys behind the Path mobile app.
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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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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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