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Main on May 20th, 2008 by Pingdom
Online travel sales are at an all-time high, and they keep growing. In this competitive market it is increasingly important for travel websites to always be available to their customers. Website downtime is basically the same thing as closing the shop and will drive both sales and customers away to competing services. To see how [...]
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Pingdom on May 16th, 2008 by Pingdom
SEOmoz has selected the Pingdom uptime monitoring service as their Tool of the Week and have given us a very positive review in their blog. They have a lot of nice things to say about Pingdom. The review looks at our alerts, reports and some of our other features as well as the general usefulness [...]
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Pingdom on May 12th, 2008 by Pingdom
The basic premise is this: You have a website you want to monitor. It’s important to you that it works, and you need to know right away when there is a problem with it. This article will show you how you can set up highly detailed monitoring of your website using the Pingdom uptime monitoring [...]
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Main on May 6th, 2008 by Pingdom
This survey shows how much 16 of the largest and most popular social network sites have been unavailable during the first four months of 2008. How much has MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, LiveJournal and many others been offline? Read on to find out. The monitoring for this survey was done using the Pingdom uptime monitoring [...]
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Pingdom on May 5th, 2008 by Pingdom
The Swedish magazine Internetworld, part of the global IT news service IDG, publish a big web hosting survey once a year where the 15 largest web hosting companies in Sweden are evaluated based on uptime and quality of service. Two years running, we have helped IDG design and perform this test, handling all monitoring tasks [...]
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Pingdom on April 24th, 2008 by Pingdom
Pingdom recently developed a custom status website for the Swedish web hosting company Binero. It’s basically a WordPress plugin, fully skinnable, which shows the current status of all servers and services of the web hosting company, as well as the uptime history for all services. The different services are categorized and grouped, and tech support [...]
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Pingdom on April 18th, 2008 by Pingdom
We have added another neat feature to the Pingdom uptime monitoring service. You asked for it, and we listened. You can now export and download a detailed log of your monitoring results to a CSV file (which you can easily view in Excel). Above: You can find the export option on the Detailed Log report [...]
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Main on April 10th, 2008 by Pingdom
We have surveyed the availability of the official websites of US presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Ron Paul from February 15 to April 7 (using Pingdom’s uptime monitoring service). These websites are an important medium for the candidates, where press releases and information about the candidates can be presented, and it [...]
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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 19th, 2008 by Pingdom
A month ago we released an Apple Store status banner that was powered by Pingdom’s uptime monitoring service. Anyone could put it on their website to show the US Apple Store status (up or down) in real time. The reason this is interesting is of course because Apple usually updates or releases new products in [...]
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