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Full speed to Velocity
Next week it’s time for one of the most interesting conferences in our field: O’Reilly’s Velocity 2011. It’s all about scalability, web performance and operations and features a ton of interesting...
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Migrating more than 250k users to a new platform
We’re proud to say that when we migrated our entire user base of more than a quarter of a million users over to a brand new platform this week, things went extremely well. And it wasn’t just about the...
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American Express homepage down for 5 hours
The American Express homepage (home.americanexpress.com) was unavailable for over five hours today. During that entire time the page responded with an HTTP 404 error (page not found). Visitors to the...
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The “top secret” room where 260 Internet Service Providers connect
We came across a very interesting article in Wired called A Lesson in Internet Anatomy: The World’s Densest Meet-Me Room. Over 260 ISPs, including major network providers like AT&T, Sprint and...
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Switching web host can be a Good Thing
We found this on Flickr and simply had to share it with you. It’s a Pingdom response time graph for a user who switched web hosting provider, with quite a drastic effect on his load time. Courtesy of...
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You good, our server provider not so good
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...
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Facebook boasts 11 times more page views than MySpace, 59 times more than...
Did you ever wonder how busy the servers of the world’s largest social networks are? It turns out it’s very hard work being popular, especially for the number one player. According to data from Google,...
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Report from Velocity day 1
Day one of the Velocity conference in Santa Clara is over and we’ve had a great day. From arriving this morning to finishing up the sessions in the afternoon, it was full speed ahead with web...
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Report from Velocity day 2
Day two of the Velocity conference in Santa Clara is over and before we head to get some shut-eye we’ll give you an update of the day. It certainly was packed from early morning with interesting and...
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Meet Pingdom at the Velocity Conference in June
A few of us at Pingdom will be heading to Santa Clara, California, in June to attend the annual Velocity Conference between June 24-26. The speaker lineup looks amazing and we really can’t wait to go....
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