Comments on: Social network downtime in 2008 https://www.pingdom.com/blog/social-network-downtime-in-2008/ Website Performance and Availability Monitoring | Pingdom Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Boris https://www.pingdom.com/blog/social-network-downtime-in-2008/#comment-8534 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:03:00 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=253#comment-8534 Would be great to have the same report for 2009!
Any chance? 🙂

]]> By: Master Dave https://www.pingdom.com/blog/social-network-downtime-in-2008/#comment-8533 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:19:08 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=253#comment-8533 How about Tribe? And some of the others?

The thing is, people look at these lists, and see only big-name companies. Small companies, like fubar.com, of which I had never before heard, do not, then, get a chance to grow. This is too bad.

Why use a small site? Less garbage! I visited a few MySpace pages which came up in Google searches. They were slow to load, slowed My computer, and were, generally, incomprehensible. No MySpace for Me!

Small sites need more exposure. Especially when they are better.

]]> By: Ryan Dunn https://www.pingdom.com/blog/social-network-downtime-in-2008/#comment-8532 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:14:47 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=253#comment-8532 Ditto to Miles. I give props to LJ for its stability after so many years and having seen it in early stages where no one expected to see it go down like it had. Still leads the pack for a content based social networking service (as opposed to FB/MS which drown their users with not only ads but pointless bits of communicative drivel).

]]> By: Miles Attacca https://www.pingdom.com/blog/social-network-downtime-in-2008/#comment-8531 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:07:24 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=253#comment-8531 The downtime ratings fail to take into account what’s basically “live downtime,” the prime example being MySpace, where roughly 10% of my clicks to internal pages result in pages that say “Server too busy” or “an unexpected error has occurred.” If you ask me, their ranking would be absolutely abhorrent if those important factors were taken into account.

]]> By: Kelly https://www.pingdom.com/blog/social-network-downtime-in-2008/#comment-8530 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:51:39 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=253#comment-8530 I bet LinkedIn’s numbers are way off after this week.

K.

]]> By: Shane https://www.pingdom.com/blog/social-network-downtime-in-2008/#comment-8529 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:36:04 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=253#comment-8529 Would have loved to seen stats for Twitter! Maybe next time.

]]> By: Mike https://www.pingdom.com/blog/social-network-downtime-in-2008/#comment-8528 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:31:15 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=253#comment-8528 12 and half hours in the first 2 months of ’08? Jeebus! Facebook looks to have improved drastically from just 6 months ago.

By the way, can you include fubar.com in your next test? We’re small, but we’re trying! 🙂

ps: we’ve had zero downtime in ’08. yay?

-mike

]]> By: Francois https://www.pingdom.com/blog/social-network-downtime-in-2008/#comment-8527 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:41:50 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=253#comment-8527 Wow, that is scary, how can you be down for 12 hours so far this year! Maybe they have been expanding faster than they could keep up with, or just had bad hosts, either way Bebo is in trouble! Thats a forecast of what, 3 full days this year if they keep it up?

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