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Guest posts on October 2nd, 2008 by Pingdom
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.
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Main on August 1st, 2007 by Pingdom
SIME, the Scandinavian Interactive Media Event, doesn’t take place until November, but some very interesting speakers have already been announced. The conference also has a seriously snazzy website this year. The list of speakers is looking very promising, with even more to come later. These are the ones announced so far: Niklas Zennström, founder of [...]
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Main on May 15th, 2007 by Pingdom
(This is an update with new data. The previous survey was done on April 2.) These are the 20 most popular websites in the United States, according to Alexa. In other words, they have tons of visitor traffic. How are they holding up under that pressure? Here you can see the downtime so far in [...]
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Main on April 2nd, 2007 by Pingdom
These are the 20 most popular websites in the United States, according to Alexa. In other words, they have tons of visitor traffic. How are they holding up under that pressure? Here you can see the downtime so far in 2007 for each of these 20 websites, as measured by GIGRIB. Downtime in 2007 for [...]
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Main on November 23rd, 2006 by Pingdom
The term “mash-up” goes hand in hand with Web 2.0. It refers to a website that combines content from several different sources and mashes it up into something new. Google, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, and many others are providing access to their data through Web service APIs. The upside is obvious. Being able to pull in [...]
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