There are good hosting companies, bad hosting companies, and then there is No Uptime. Yes, of course it’s all a joke, but it’s a very funny and very well made website. 🙂 Image: If your website downtime ever starts to follow this trend, you might want to consider switching to another host. Their slogan says […]

There is a lot of downtime on the internet, more than most people are aware of. That is why we figured it would be interesting to share how many website and server outages we have detected for our customers so far during 2007. Number of outages in 2007 From the start of 2007 until today, […]

Starting this week, it is possible to see the exact reason why a server or website is detected as down by Pingdom. This will make it much easier for you as a user to pinpoint exactly what is wrong, and should help you find the problem faster. This is not a feature you need to […]

We realized that it might be interesting to have a record of what the 404 error campaign looked like and ”behaved” even after it is gone. In other words, a video… So here it is, for your viewing pleasure and with a little bit of help from YouTube: Above: This is our first YouTube video! […]

If you have visited the Pingdom homepage in the last few days, you have seen a 404 error message instead of our regular homepage. However, it is actually a campaign where we have changed the error message from “404 page not found” to “404 price not found” (see the image below). We thought this was […]

We have just launched a campaign on the Pingdom website. Why do people use uptime monitoring? A huge reason is to know if there is a problem with their websites or servers. No one is immune against downtime, but sometimes it can be hard to explain the point of using uptime monitoring in a simple […]

It is becoming increasingly common for both companies and individuals to monitor the uptime (availability) of their websites and servers. That way they can be notified of problems as soon as they occur and also view how their site has performed historically. However, not all monitoring is created equal. How useful uptime monitoring will be […]

.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 […]

This is a survey of the uptime of 16 online storage services during June – Aug 2007, showing some striking differences in availability. The service with the best uptime only had five minutes of downtime in three months, while the service with the worst uptime had more than 66 hours of downtime during the same […]

As we mentioned earlier, a couple of weeks ago the Serbian Pingdom team came over to Sweden to spend time with us here at the Pingdom HQ. Together we worked out the road map for the coming 12 months for the Pingdom uptime monitoring service and also had a lot of fun on the side. […]

During yesterday’s keynote Apple presented new iPods that got all Apple fans excited, including us. New versions of Shuffle, Nano and Classic and the totally new iPod Touch which is basically the iPhone without the phone part. As always when Apple introduces new products they take down their online Apple Store while they do the […]

We wrote about the results of our Firefox campaign a couple of days ago. In short, a free offer made lots of people switch web browsers to Firefox. We had expected that a lot of people would install Firefox and come back to our website to be able to be able to sign up for […]

A friend of ours was out driving the other day and came across this sign. Pingbo, we now know, is a tiny village a good part north of our current HQ in Sweden. A very handsome name indeed, considering the similarities to Pingdom, but too bad the infrastructure and communications probably aren’t very good. Above: […]

No trip is complete without at least one major incident. (Murphy’s Law in action, once again.) When our visiting Serbian team took off from Arlanda airport this Tuesday to return home, it turned out that the transponders on the airplane were broken. Those are the things that make the plane visible to the flight control […]

Last Friday, seven guys from Pingdom’s Serbian development team came to visit us here in Sweden. What followed were four intensive days with a lot of work but also a lot of fun. Some of us hadn’t met before, so it was great getting to know everyone in person. What was on the agenda? Plan […]

Congratulations to the 1,000 Firefox users who managed to land themselves a whole year of Pingdom uptime monitoring for free in our campaign last week. (Yes, all 1,000 accounts disappeared like butter in sunshine.) Interestingly enough, when we analyzed our web server logs we noticed that 23 percent of the people that visited the Pingdom […]

If you sign up for Pingdom uptime monitoring using a Firefox browser you will get a whole year for free (saving you $119.40). The offer is valid until Saturday. Sounds interesting? Visit the Pingdom sign-up page! (You don’t need a credit card.) We are celebrating the successful release of our Mr Uptime Firefox extension by […]

Have you ever wondered what technology some of the really big websites use? The likes of Digg, YouTube, Myspace and so on? There is a very interesting website called High Scalability that is dedicated to, as they put it themselves, “building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.” They collect information about the architecture of high-traffic websites […]

That domain names have become big business isn’t news to anyone. It is often likened to a virtual real estate business where millions of dollars are at stake. We were curious to see how the most expensive domain names are actually being used today, so we decided to find out. Kate Donahue from Sedo was […]

This blog entry will let you in behind the scenes of how Mr Uptime was created, from idea to development, and how the idea was realized from start to finish in less than 200 man hours. The idea As with many ideas, the idea of Mr Uptime was born out of a problem. The problem […]