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Pingdom on April 1st, 2011 by Pingdom
From today and onward, Pingdom has two blogs. Yes, two. Read on and you’ll understand why.
There’s our good old Royal Pingdom, where we will continue to ramble on about web tech, the Internet and geeky things that don’t necessarily have anything to do with Pingdom the company.
Then there’s the new addition: the official Pingdom blog. This blog will be 100% dedicated to giving you news about Pingdom’s products (mainly our uptime monitoring service) and what’s happening with the company itself. We’ll also be generous with tips and tricks that Pingdom users might find useful.
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Pingdom on March 29th, 2011 by Pingdom
You’ve been asking for it, ladies and gentlemen, and now you have it: a Pingdom app for Android.
Just like our iPhone app, the Pingdom Android app is an excellent companion to the Pingdom uptime monitoring service. It lets you connect to your Pingdom account to view the status of the servers and websites you’re monitoring, and also supports alerts via push notifications.
The app is free, and works together with all types of Pingdom accounts (including free accounts).
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Pingdom on December 3rd, 2009 by Pingdom
When Apple introduced push notifications to the iPhone this summer, we immediately thought of what a great match it would be for our monitoring service. After all, the main point of the Pingdom uptime monitoring service is getting alerts when your website or server goes down.
So, when we started work on version 2.0 of our iPhone app, this was one of our top priorities. Now the new version is here, with push notifications, graphs, and more.
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Main on October 28th, 2009 by Pingdom
Last week we made it possible for you to get Pingdom alerts via Twitter, giving you one more way to know if your website is down.
Initially we sent you alerts from a dedicated “alert account”, @pingdomalert, but some people also wanted to be able to have these alerts sent via their own Twitter accounts instead of TO them, so now we have added that functionality as well (i.e. alerts from Pingdom as your own status updates).
Let’s have a look at the different ways people are using these alerts.
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Pingdom on October 22nd, 2009 by Pingdom
Yesterday we announced that you can now get Pingdom alerts via Twitter.
So how do you activate those alerts? We have made it very easy for you:
- Add your Twitter username to your contact(s).
- Select “Twitter” as notification method when editing/adding a site for monitoring.
Alerts via Twitter is an excellent complement to email and SMS alerts. It’s yet another way you can get alerted by Pingdom when your websites or servers go down.
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Pingdom on October 21st, 2009 by Pingdom
Twitter is an extremely popular service with millions and millions of users, and now those users can get Pingdom alerts delivered right to their Twitter accounts.
Twitter is an excellent complement to Pingdom’s uptime monitoring service, and we’re very happy to open up our service to Twitter’s huge user base. Even better, since Pingdom now has free accounts it becomes a great companion to webmasters with a Twitter account. Getting alerted of website downtime has never been easier and never cost less (i.e. nothing).
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Main on May 30th, 2008 by Pingdom
Having just one screen per workstation is enough for most people. Everyone in the Pingdom office has two screens per workstation. We find that that is a nice sweet spot, with a good deal of screen real estate without taking up too much space. But there are people out there who think having two screens [...]
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Main on May 24th, 2007 by Pingdom
This three-week uptime survey of 11 social bookmarking sites shows 100% uptime for Digg, Fark, Slashdot and Netscape. Other sites are less fortunate. Digg and Del.icio.us are at the forefront of social media and web 2.0, but they are far from alone. They have plenty of competing services, and these social bookmarking sites are getting [...]
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Pingdom on November 28th, 2006 by Pingdom
Imagine that you run an online store (or perhaps you don’t have to imagine). Customers are pouring in and you are able to sell your merchandise 24/7, always open and always available. Then imagine that your order form stops working. The website works fine, but no one can place an order successfully. You are losing [...]
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Main on November 15th, 2006 by Pingdom
The press has started to take notice of how useful GIGRIB is to find out facts about network outages and website problems. Back when GIGRIB was under the Ipwalk umbrella, GIGRIB was already being used by several members of the press to get facts about site outages, for example the extensive AllofMP3s site problems, to [...]
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