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Pingdom on July 1st, 2009 by Pingdom
We have exciting news to share. As you may have noticed, we made some changes to the Pingdom website yesterday, and the main thing we added was a new account type that many of you are going to love: Pingdom Free.
Now, for the first time ever, you can use Pingdom for free. We’re not talking about a free trial, but a completely free account that you can use for as long as you like, no strings attached.
In other words, you are getting a professional uptime monitoring service for free. With the Pingdom service, you’ll be the first to know when your site goes down.
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Main on April 9th, 2009 by Pingdom
With Easter comes sweets, and lots of them (at least here in Sweden!). This year we have something extra sweet for all you site owners who don’t have proper uptime monitoring set up for your website yet, something that might come in handy while you’re at home relaxing during Easter.
The above picture is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? 
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Pingdom on February 5th, 2009 by Pingdom
Those of you familiar with us know that we here at Pingdom provide an uptime monitoring service that allows its users the ability to monitor the uptime (availability) of their websites and servers from the Internet. This way, if there is a problem, they will be alerted right away.
Normally our users access their data via an online control panel, but we also have an API that the more technically inclined can use to access their data.
One of the companies that use Pingdom is Camvine, a company with a product called CODA that allows you to display information on remote displays, all managed via a central website.
They have done something we think is really cool, using Pingdom’s API to access their monitoring data, adding a real-time status display for their system.
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Pingdom on January 21st, 2009 by Pingdom
A new year has arrived, and we here at Pingdom have dived headlong into it. For example, just last week we launched a new iPhone app that can be used to access our uptime monitoring service.
And while 2009 promises to be a great year for us, we certainly can’t complain about 2008. In fact, 2008 has been a very good year for us.
So we decided to share some numbers with you.
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Main on January 20th, 2009 by Pingdom
The video-sharing site Revver has been having some major stability problems for a while now.
On November 1, Revver told TechCrunch that they were migrating to a new service provider:
Greenspan checked in and says they are in the middle of major migration from a CDN/provider to a tier 1 & top technology provider which “should make the quality of Revver videos displayed better then ever” (could take a few days).
The question is how well that migration has gone.
Our monitoring reveals that in the past month, the Revver website has been unavailable for a total of almost 24 hours. In just the last week, it has been down for more than 6 hours (including a 5-hour outage on January 17).
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Pingdom on January 14th, 2009 by Pingdom
We have released an iPhone application that can be used with the Pingdom uptime monitoring service. The aptly named Pingdom iPhone app lets you easily connect to Pingdom and view the current status of the monitoring you have set up.
This is a handy companion when you receive a problem alert from Pingdom, indicating an error with your website or servers. Just start the Pingdom iPhone app and examine the current status from your iPhone.
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Pingdom on August 26th, 2008 by Pingdom
Yesterday, the highly popular tech blog Mashable had a post covering “13 Free and Cheap Website Monitoring Services”. The uptime monitoring service provided by Pingdom isn’t free, but it was still the first on the list. Here is what Mashable had to say about Pingdom: Pingdom has a good set of cheap packages, but alas, [...]
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Pingdom on July 14th, 2008 by Pingdom
What if you could have a type of monitoring that would store a value of your choosing, and a status of your choosing, based on a script on your servers? A kind of “universal” check type that you can customize as you wish on your end. Well, now you can. We have added a new, [...]
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Pingdom on June 13th, 2008 by Pingdom
We almost forgot to tell you about a new feature we snuck into the Pingdom uptime monitoring service a few weeks ago. As with many of our features, this one was added by popular request from our users (who we would like to thank for all the wonderful feedback we have been receiving). Now you, [...]
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Pingdom on May 21st, 2008 by Pingdom
We were curious about what people on Twitter are saying about Pingdom, so we used Tweet Scan (a search engine for public messages on Twitter) to look for tweets about us. Here are some of the tweets we found about our uptime monitoring service. We have thousands of users, so some of them were bound [...]
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