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Domain names, without them the web would just be a bunch of hard-to-remember IP addresses. Imagine telling your buddies, “Oh, I found this awesome site at 72.14.204.104 last night.”
And yet, many of us don’t know all that much about them. Prepare to be cured of that, because here is…
As Super Bowl 46 is approaching, fans will flock to the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, and to TV sets around the world to follow the New York Giants battle it out with the New England Patriots.
Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30EST on Sunday, February 5, and we’re already monitoring Superbowl.com to see how the site will handle the event.
What team will win Super Bowl 46? How will the site cope? We can only wait to find out.
Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, and other geeky topics.h
This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on cloud, with a few other topics thrown in to boot.
Out of the 59 US-based e-commerce sites we monitored during the holiday season last year 28 scored a perfect 100% uptime for December.
Whether this helped spur on the booming sales in the US, we don’t know, but retail e-commerce spending in the US reached $37.2 billion for the November to December 2011 period. That was an increase of 15% from the same period in 2010.
We decided to dig into the numbers for these e-commerce sites to see how well they did in terms of uptime and performance. After massaging the data coming from our Pingdom probes, it turns out that the sites overall performed well during December 2011 in terms of uptime, but response time was an issue for several sites.
Pingdom’s Mobile Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, and mobile stuff.
In this show, Saleh also gives us an update on the pending submission of his Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter client. We’re also joined by Mario Lurig, who talks about using Amazon S3 and Cloudfront to speed up a website.
Want to be able to download a DVD worth of data in about 38 minutes? It may not seem very impressive, but that’s with the average Internet speed in South Korea, according to the latest “State of the Internet” report by Akamai.
Covering Q3 2011, the report again puts South Korea at the top of the list of countries with the fastest Internet connections. The country scored an average connection speed of 16.7 Mbps in Q3 2011.
Antonio
May 18th, 2010 at 10:51 am
Very cool and summarized version!
Thanks.
k3nsblog.com
May 18th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
In your time line it points to 1995 and states that it cost $100 to register a .com domain for 2 years. But below that it says 2005. Just thought I would point that out. Good post thoough!!
Andy
May 18th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Why can I never ever see your info graphics?
I’ve tried using the web page in FF, IE8 & Chrome but nothing??
Pingdom
May 19th, 2010 at 2:07 am
@k3nsblog.com Thanks for noticing. The image has been updated with the change.
@Andy That sounds really strange since its just a PNG image. Try to open only the image, you can see it here: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4618291667_bed153079f_o.png
Geen Russell
May 19th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Entertaining and educational.
It was useful for me.
Thanks!
Misao
May 20th, 2010 at 10:44 am
Very nice article. Thank you!
adrian
May 20th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
great, but another great domain name “hack” is 960.gs
Efergus
May 21st, 2010 at 3:11 am
Hahaha! Those domain hacks are really cool, I didn’t know all of them.
Steve
May 27th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
great, but another great domain name “hack” is 960.gs
Pingdom
May 28th, 2010 at 3:22 am
@Steve That’s a good one too.
Nic Stevens
June 20th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
http://www.example.com is broken down into www (host) example (domain) and com (tld) www is NOT a subdomain unless it has other hosts attached to it (george.www.example.com)