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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 [...]
Last week we (Pingdom) released a survey of the uptime of Google’s localized homepages for 32 countries. It turned out to be very popular. So who wrote about it? Here are a few examples: eWeek, Times Online, PC Magazine, NetworkWorld, CNET News.com, CNET Webware, TechCrunch, GigaOM, WebProNews, IDG in Sweden and in Brazil, IT Wire, [...]
TechCrunch was one of the places that wrote about the Google uptime report we published last week, where Google’s Brazilian homepage turned out to have the best uptime. Interestingly enough, it looks like a Brazilian Google engineer has commented on the article. See screenshot from TechCrunch below. For those who prefer plain text, here is [...]
.net magazine had a special treat for all their subscribers in their 2007 summer issue: One free year of Pingdom uptime monitoring (normal price, $119.40). The .net subscribers had until the end of August to sign up on the special address provided on the flyer that came with the magazine. Now that the campaign is [...]
.net magazine is offering all their subscribers one year of free uptime monitoring from Pingdom, worth $119.40. The offer is included in issue 166 (summer 2007) which should already have landed in your mailbox if you are a subscriber. Look at the insert included with the magazine to get information on how to claim your [...]
With online travel sales set to reach $94 billion in 2007, downtime is more costly than ever for travel websites. A four-week survey of 16 travel websites shows that only four had no downtime. Online travel sales are at an all-time high and the market is becoming increasingly competitive. In this competitive climate it is [...]
IDG.se, the largest source for IT news in Sweden, published an article today with the title (translated) “Pingdom could become synonymous with uptime.” The article mentions how Pingdom is increasingly being used as a source for uptime data in various international IT magazines and websites. The analogy they use is how Alexa.com has become famous [...]
Sam Nurmi, our CEO, has written a feature article for the highly respected web industry magazine Vitamin titled Create an irresistible free trial for your app. If you’re about to create a trial option for your web service, or you have a free trial that isn’t performing as well as you’d like, this is definitely [...]
Working together with Pingdom, Swedish IDG magazine Internetworld performed an exhaustive test of 15 Swedish web hosting companies. The test is the basis for selecting the Swedish web hosting company of the year and is a highly popular recurring Internetworld event. The results are always widely discussed both inside the hosting industry as well as [...]
The Web developers at Project83 have given Pingdom a glowing review in their blog. These are just a few snippets from what they had to say about us: Although I work on the web, over the years there have been very few web applications that have truly become instrumental to the way we do business. [...]
