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Main on January 31st, 2007 by Pingdom
The development team behind Pingdom is also responsible for Ipwalk, a service that keeps track of name server statistics (Ipwalk was recently mentioned in Phil Wainewright’s ZDNet SaaS blog). Needless to say, keeping track of all the name servers on the Internet takes up a lot of space, and we use PostgreSQL databases to store [...]
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Main on January 22nd, 2007 by Pingdom
On January 20, our article Where NOT to keep your servers according to Mother Nature hit the number one spot on the front page of Digg. Looking at the bandwidth graph below, you can clearly see the traffic spike when we hit the first page of Digg. Or perhaps we should say when Digg hit [...]
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Pingdom on November 30th, 2006 by Pingdom
The obvious way to use Pingdom is to monitor uptime for websites and servers. It’s extremely easy to set up a check to monitor www.mywebpage.com or an IP address, and this is how most people use Pingdom today. However, Pingdom is not a one-trick pony. There are a lot of things you can do with [...]
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