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Posts Tagged ‘feedburner’

How fast and reliable is your Feedburner RSS feed?

A huge number of blogs use Feedburner to syndicate their RSS feeds. Since the service was launched in 2004, it’s pretty much become the de facto standard for this. With so many bloggers relying on Feedburner, reliability and performance is of course extremely important. RSS feeds, just like websites, need to be available all the time on the Web.

We have tested Feedburner’s RSS feed performance and uptime.

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A bit of FeedBurner goodness

We started using FeedBurner just a couple of months ago. This has allowed us to get some reasonable statistics on the number of people who have subscribed to the Royal Pingdom RSS feed. We are happy to say that the numbers have been growing, slowly but steadily. Lately, our blog has started to go above [...]

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Sorry, Center Networks, no Feedburner uptime data

Allen Stern over at Center Networks noted yesterday that it seemed like the RSS delivery service Feedburner was having some issues. He then made an interesting comment: Where is Pingdom with an uptime report? We would have loved to help you out, Allen, but unfortunately we don’t have any Feedburner monitoring data of our own [...]

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Skype, AdBrite and more are using Pingdom

It’s no secret that things are going well for us. Pingdom keeps growing and new customers keep coming in. There are a lot of very interesting companies putting our uptime monitoring services to good use. For example, we think it’s pretty cool that Skype is one of our customers. There are plenty of other exciting [...]

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Popular website survey redux

It’s been a week since we published our website infrastructure survey (covering TechCrunch, FeedBurner, iStockPhoto, YouSendIt, Meebo, Vimeo and Alexaholic). The survey has been in the news over at WebProNews, InfoWorld, Internetworld (Swedish IDG), PHP Magazine, as well as a very large number of blogs (CenterNetworks, Ensight, CrunchNotes, TheOpenForce, just to name a few). We’re [...]

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What the Web’s most popular sites are running on

With its Web 2.0 focus it is easily one of the most popular blogs out there. Linked to by over 15,400 other blogs according to Technorati makes it the 5th most popular blog on the Web. Technorati also has 151,000 feed subscribers according to Feedburner. www.techcrunch.com FeedBurner provides RSS feed management for bloggers and other [...]

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Smart service, smart customers

We take uptime very seriously, and so do our customers. Why? Because on the Internet, you can’t take anything for granted. There are just too many factors affecting website and service availability. There will be a problem, the questions is only when, and how companies react to resolve it. In other words, any company just [...]

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