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Sometimes websites don’t respond or have other problems. We got tired of missing cool articles and websites for this reason, and then not remembering to revisit them later. That is why we created a Firefox extension that will tell you when a broken website is working again. The problem: There is an annoying problem that […]

Power consumption continues to be a major cost (and general head ache) for data centers. The latest numbers come from a consulting firm called the Uptime Institute. Even though server hardware energy efficiency has improved, it is being offset by the continuous increase in computing power. According to the report, computational performance in servers has […]

Ok, let’s retract that headline at once. If you’re a SaaS provider, especially a really big one, having a backup facility makes an awful lot of sense. When you provide a service over the internet you have an obligation to your customers to do your best to assure that your service is always available (or […]

SIME, the Scandinavian Interactive Media Event, doesn’t take place until November, but some very interesting speakers have already been announced. The conference also has a seriously snazzy website this year. The list of speakers is looking very promising, with even more to come later. These are the ones announced so far: Niklas Zennström, founder of […]

Whenever you try to access a web page that doesn’t exist on the web server you get a 404 error page. You’ve all seen the standard 404 “page not found” message a thousand times by now, and it gets old real fast. So, wouldn’t it be nice if that error page was a little more […]

Sadly, this doesn’t seem to be a joke, according to an article in Ars Technica. Prices for internet connections in Kazakhstan are almost surreal. Dial-up internet access costs $111 per month and a 1.5 Mbps DSL connection will set you back $3,355 per month. If you want the luxury of a 6 Mbps cable connection, […]

System administrators may not make the world go round, but they are the ones who make the internet and everything around it work. That is no small feat, and they deserve all the respect they can get. Without them, you probably wouldn’t be online reading this blog right now. That’s the idea behind System Administrator […]

We have previously shown that for transferring large amounts of data, overnight delivery by FedEx is faster than using the internet. However, FedEx may be getting some serious competition in the near future: teleportation. It sounds very Star Trek, but scientists are working hard to make it a reality, and the results would apparently be […]

We have released a public forum for Pingdom Tools, our set of free tools for webmasters. The idea is that you now have a place to post feature requests and questions, discuss test results and share tips and tricks (and, God forbid, post any bugs you may find). “Helpful resource” are the keywords here, just […]

Thanks to the “search by language” feature in the blog search engine Technorati, we were able to get an idea of how Pingdom has managed to breach the language barrier. The web, after all, is a global market, and we are proud to have users from all over the world. Last time we checked, we […]

It looks like summer is taking its toll on general website stability around the world. Average monthly website downtime   March 119 minutes April 120 minutes May 115 minutes June 139 minutes As you can see, there is a significant downtime increase in June. Compared to the average of the previous three months (118 minutes), […]

Pingdom’s new web application designed to pinpoint the cause of slow-loading websites has proved so popular that it has already been used half a million times despite being quietly released less than two months ago. It has also been featured in large tech and web 2.0 blogs such as Mashable and Ajaxian. Making website load […]

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 […]

Everyone wants their blog to be popular. Really popular. The first problem is of course to become really popular. It’s not an easy thing to do. The second problem comes in if you become too popular. Showing all those blog posts will soon bring your web server to its knees. But fear not, dear WordPress […]

Summer is finally here. Ice cream sales are, of course, skyrocketing. Strangely enough, so is the demand for uptime monitoring. Most IT-related businesses slow down during the summer period. Not ours. If anything, we have noticed a trend that even more companies are eager to add uptime monitoring of their servers and websites during this […]

You all know Mr. Murphy. He’s the man who gave his name to the infamous Murphy’s Law, the one that states that “if anything can go wrong, it will.” Murphy’s Law is behind 99% of all downtime on the internet. Why? Because assumptions are made every day that invite disaster. Leave a window of opportunity […]

You know how it is when you have something really great you want to share with the world. You’re bursting to tell everyone. That’s us right now. We have something we want to tell you. Believe us, we really want to tell you. But we can’t. It’s still a secret. Oh, ok, just a little […]

This survey shows the downtime in minutes for Fatsecret, CozmoTV, Sonopia, Fotowoosh, LeapTag, Zwinky, Writewith, Kyte, Visible Path and ScratchYourself over the last month and half. Having good availability is important to any website, and even more so to web applications and other online services. After all, their users access them solely over the web. […]

Once you have deployed your website on the internet, you will want to make sure it works well and acts as you intended. You may also want to look at other, similar websites, to see how they have solved the challenges you yourself face with your own website. This is where the Full Page Test […]

The HTTP status code 404 means that a web page could not be found on the server. This is normally a bad thing. No webmaster wants to see this when accessing his/her own website. So, considering we are in the uptime business, trying to banish as many of these 404 messages as we possibly can […]