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Outages on October 1st, 2008 by Pingdom
Wikipedia was down twice yesterday (September 30).
The first and longest outage lasted half an hour and started just after 4 p.m. CET (10 a.m. EST), and the second one was a short ten-minute outage a couple of hours later. In total, the website was unavailable for approximately 40 minutes.
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Main on July 7th, 2008 by Pingdom
Not long ago we all used an ordinary encyclopedia when we needed to find information about something. Today the Internet can give us the answer to (almost) anything. When it comes to getting the facts on basically anything between heaven and earth, one particular site really stands out. Yes, Wikipedia, we are talking about you. [...]
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Main on April 18th, 2007 by Pingdom
Wikipedia is on a roll. After a sometimes rocky uptime record in 2006, the online encyclopedia has only collected a total of 2 hours and 33 minutes of downtime so far in 2007. Wikipedia is the 8th most popular website on the internet according to Alexa. Judging by its immense growth in traffic it looks [...]
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