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Pingdom on September 23rd, 2011 by Pingdom
Our server infrastructure has a lot of work to do, it’s quite a busy bee. When you monitor the uptime and response time of as many websites and servers on the Internet as we do, and do it on a continuous basis, the numbers quickly add up. Just for fun, we thought we’d share some of these numbers with you.
First a couple of year-to-date numbers for the Pingdom monitoring network:
- Tests performed so far this year: 37 billion
- Alerts sent out so far this year (all alerts to all contacts): 31 million
The alert number is the sum of all alerts via email, SMS, Twitter, iPhone push notifications, etc.
And what about right now? Here is a snapshot of our current hourly workload…
Read the rest of this article over at the Pingdom blog (our “product blog”).
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Main on February 22nd, 2012 by Pingdom
Perceptions matter, and the perception of Nokia in the news, on the web, and in the minds of many, is that things aren’t going that well. Even in the Pingdom office, we hear “Nokia is doomed,” but do the numbers support this belief?
Looking at the statistics, Symbian leads the mobile operating system race with just over 30% of web browsing traffic. That’s down slightly from late last year, when we noted that Symbian finished 2011 as the top mobile operating system, with almost 34% of the mobile OS market.
What is even more interesting, however, is that Nokia is also ahead when we look at figures for all the mobile handset vendors. In fact, Nokia is way ahead of Apple, and Android lags far behind.
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Podcast on February 19th, 2012 by Pingdom
Pingdom’s Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff.
In this show, we talk mainly about Distributed Denial of Service attacks. Some fresh research shows an increase in smaller, more targeted DDoS attacks, and hacker group Anonymous has vowed to take down the Internet by launching a DDoS attack on the 13 root DNS servers.
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Main on February 17th, 2012 by Pingdom
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.
This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on OpenStack.
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Main on February 16th, 2012 by Pingdom
By some measures, more than 7 billion people now inhabit the world, and more than a third of us are on the Internet. But how many are added each day, each week, or each minute? We think we have a pretty good idea.
Read on for some pretty amazing numbers.
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Podcast on February 15th, 2012 by Pingdom
Pingdom’s Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff.
In this show, we can finally talk about Saleh’s Carbon for Windows Phone app being available in Windows Marketplace. We also talk to Rich Brueckner of InsideHPC.com about the world of supercomputers.
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John Deen
September 30th, 2011 at 11:07 am
good lawd, that’s a lot of sites. I wonder how much it would cost to run a server that does so many test per minute.
medlaw
November 19th, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Wanted to mention your DNS test tool came in handy recently.
http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/
Google WMT kept showing crawling errors at a time when the logs showed the server to be up. The system administrator where the server is hosted swore they had no DNS issues. I ran the site through the DNS test tool and the report showed a problem, which caused the admin to eat some crow and fix the problem. Thanks.