Pingdom Home

US + international: +1-212-796-6890

SE + international: +46-21-480-0920

Business hours 3 am-11:30 am EST (Mon-Fri).

Pingdom Blog

Royal Pingdom

Ramblings from the Pingdom team about the Internet and web tech

RSS Feed

Archive for the ‘Guest posts’ Category

Amazon adding Windows support to EC2

Amazon has announced that they are adding support for Windows and MS SQL Server to their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

We have been waiting for Amazon to announce something like this for quite some time now. It was bound to happen sooner or later. The feature is currently in closed beta, but Amazon promises that you will be able to use Windows Server instances in EC2 before the end of 2008.

Read more

List of cloud computing providers

The site mytestbox.com has published a interesting article called Cloud computing, grid computing, utility computing – list of top providers.

It contains a good list of companies and information if you are researching cloud services.

Read more

Latency costs sales and drives visitors away

High Scalability recently posted a monster of an article with facts about how latency directly affects the bottom line of businesses on the Web, and best of all, plenty of advice on how websites can go about to reduce latency.

Read more