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Main on January 5th, 2010 by Pingdom
Did you ever wonder how busy the servers of the world’s largest social networks are? It turns out it’s very hard work being popular, especially for the number one player.
According to data from Google, Facebook serves 260 billion page views per month. That’s more than six million page views per minute, or a staggering 37.4 trillion page views in a year. We can safely assume that Facebook’s web servers aren’t getting bored waiting around for work to do.
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Main on March 25th, 2008 by Pingdom
We got this reply in our support inbox after having sent a customer a friendly email asking how things were going with his Pingdom account. He clearly got the gist of it, didn’t he? Uptime monitoring can reveal a lot, but we have never seen it boiled down to such a concise and to-the-point message [...]
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Pingdom on March 17th, 2008 by Pingdom
We found this on Flickr and simply had to share it with you. It’s a Pingdom response time graph for a user who switched web hosting provider, with quite a drastic effect on his load time. Courtesy of MellerTime at Flickr. Could the switch possibly have been around 4 p.m…?
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Main on March 7th, 2008 by Pingdom
We came across a very interesting article in Wired called A Lesson in Internet Anatomy: The World’s Densest Meet-Me Room. Over 260 ISPs, including major network providers like AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, all cross-connect in a single data center in an office building in downtown LA. Scissors and other sharp objects cannot be welcome here… [...]
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Main on March 7th, 2008 by Pingdom
The American Express homepage (home.americanexpress.com) was unavailable for over five hours today. During that entire time the page responded with an HTTP 404 error (page not found). Visitors to the homepage were met by a simple text message: “File not found.” The problem lasted from 05:47 a.m. to 10:52 a.m. Central European Time (11:47 p.m. [...]
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Main on February 22nd, 2008 by Pingdom
Since February 8, the Joost website has had outages almost on a daily basis. Some short, some up to an hour long. With a full week left of February, the website has already been unavailable for a total of five hours and ten minutes this month. This can be contrasted with January, when they had [...]
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Main on February 19th, 2008 by Pingdom
It’s no secret that there has been an on-going war over customers in the web hosting industry for many years. Together with the technical evolution of computer hardware, this fierce competition has drastically increased what you get for your money when you buy a web hosting account. The people behind Pingdom originally came from the [...]
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Main on February 15th, 2008 by Pingdom
Since 1999, Voxel has powered the high performance needs of a demanding client base by offering scalable delivery of high-bandwidth media, applications and content. www.voxel.net Panther Express is a global content delivery network provider established in 2005 by the former CEO of DoubleClick, Kevin Ryan, and the co-founder and former CTO of DoubleClick, Dwight Merriman. [...]
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Main on January 24th, 2008 by Pingdom
We have posted pics of some truly messy data center cabling in the past, but this time we figured it was time to do the opposite: Show how some people have managed to organize cables into something close to art. Courtesy of Digital:Slurp. — Courtesy of ChrisDag. — Courtesy of mbm3290. Swedish colors! How could [...]
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Main on January 9th, 2008 by Pingdom
We found this picture and couldn’t believe our eyes. This can’t even be called a cable mess. This is cable CHAOS. “Hmmm… Where does this one lead…?” Hopefully this isn’t your data center. Not tired of cable messes yet? Want more? Then check out this excellent, but kind of scary collection.
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