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Enhance your site performance with data from actual site visitors

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Real user insights in real time

Know how your site or web app is performing with real user insights

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Instant visibility into servers, virtual hosts, and containerized environments

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Comprehensive set of turnkey infrastructure integrations

Including dozens of AWS and Azure services, container orchestrations like Docker and Kubernetes, and more 

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Application Performance Monitoring Powered by SolarWinds AppOptics

Comprehensive, full-stack visibility, and troubleshooting

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Complete visibility into application issues

Pinpoint the root cause down to a poor-performing line of code

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Integrated, cost-effective, hosted, and scalable full-stack, multi-source log management

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Collect, search, and analyze log data

Quickly jump into the relevant logs to accelerate troubleshooting

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Calculating lost exposure and income due to website downtime

Whenever a website goes down it loses exposure. Downtime is always bad, but for some a little bit of lost exposure now and then doesn’t matter all that much. For others it can be a very expensive affair, for example websites that get their income from advertising. The effect of lost exposure is relative to […]

IDG collaborates with Pingdom for large-scale web hosting award

Working together with Pingdom, Swedish IDG magazine Internetworld performed an exhaustive test of 15 Swedish web hosting companies. The test is the basis for selecting the Swedish web hosting company of the year and is a highly popular recurring Internetworld event. The results are always widely discussed both inside the hosting industry as well as […]

Google Search in the United States could run over USB (sort of)

That Google is dominating the search industry is not exactly news. According to Nielsen/Netratings there were approximately 3 billion searches made in the U.S. on google.com in December 2006. Though traffic estimates should always be taken with a grain of salt, we decided to make some simplified calculations based on this to see how much […]

Robotic swordfighting makes you go wii

Nintendo’s Wii gaming console that was released a couple of months ago came with a new unique controller, the Wiimote. It includes a motion sensor so games are controlled by moving the actual controller. You’ve probably already seen or heard about it. But why play with videogames when you can play with robots? Big robots. […]

Servers consuming as much power as color TVs

There has been a lot of discussion the last couple of years about how power costs have become a major expense for data centers. The latest entry in the debate comes from an AMD-sponsored report by Jonathan Koomey of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. According to the report, power for servers and their cooling equipment […]

Popular website survey redux

It’s been a week since we published our website infrastructure survey (covering TechCrunch, FeedBurner, iStockPhoto, YouSendIt, Meebo, Vimeo and Alexaholic). The survey has been in the news over at WebProNews, InfoWorld, Internetworld (Swedish IDG), PHP Magazine, as well as a very large number of blogs (CenterNetworks, Ensight, CrunchNotes, TheOpenForce, just to name a few). We’re […]

ASCII art generator

We stumbled on a geeky but nifty little Web application that converts images to ASCII art, the ASCII-O-Matic. Being geeks ourselves, of course we couldn’t resist seeing what it would do to our logo… 🙂

DNS root server geography facts

The DNS root servers, the backbone for handling all domain name queries on the Internet, used to all be located in North America. Not anymore. Thanks to the anycast technology used by six of the root server adresses, the actual locations of the servers have been spread all over the world and their numbers increased […]

Pinging the Del.icio.us hotlist

No, we’re not monitoring the uptime of the Del.icio.us hotlist… We’re in it. Our survey about the software and technology behind seven of the Web’s most popular sites turned out to be quite a hit. In spite of being released just this Monday it’s already been mentioned in lots of articles and blogs. This morning […]

What the Web’s most popular sites are running on

With its Web 2.0 focus it is easily one of the most popular blogs out there. Linked to by over 15,400 other blogs according to Technorati makes it the 5th most popular blog on the Web. Technorati also has 151,000 feed subscribers according to Feedburner. www.techcrunch.com FeedBurner provides RSS feed management for bloggers and other […]

Fun and graceful downtime – YouTube leads by example

When your website goes down, whether it’s for planned or unplanned (read: panicky) maintenance, you definitely want to have some kind of temporary landing page. If visitors are just met by a browser error message that doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. A company that has repeatedly provided everyone with great, and very amusing, maintenance pages is […]

Pingdom founder in book about entrepreneurship

Sam Nurmi, founder and CEO of Pingdom, has been profiled as one of only 15 people in a new book about entrepreneurship (the interview actually took place way back in October). The book contains plenty of good advice and is part of an initiative to inspire and stimulate budding young entrepreneurs and will be freely […]

Why on Earth are there THIRTEEN root servers?

It’s Friday (thankfully not the 13th) and we just have to get something off our collective chest. There is a HUGE flaw in the DNS system and the Internet as we know it will probably cease to exist very soon. What are we talking about? The whole Internet rests on the shoulders of 13 DNS […]

How the Internet could come to a stop

Last week there was an attempt to attack and bring down the DNS root nameservers of the Internet with a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The attack caused major problems for at least one of the 13 root nameservers (ironically the one maintained by the U.S. Department of Defense.) This is not the first time […]

Free year of Pingdom uptime monitoring this Valentine’s

As a special Valentine’s Day gift, Pingdom has decided to offer everyone at Web Hosting Talk a full FREE year of uptime monitoring. We love hosting companies (and we’re pretty sure they love us.) This is our way of sending some loving their way on this special day. Image: Note that this is just a […]

Swedish monitoring server on the way

We are about to add a new monitoring location in Västerås, Sweden. The server has been installed and is now going through the rough but fair monitoring server boot camp before joining the troops. Image: Shiny new monitoring server resting securely in its server rack. Pingdom will gradually be adding more and more servers. We […]

The marketing ninja from Hell

We found these hilarious videos and felt they were right on the money. This is why you need uptime monitoring. Sooner or later you’ll do business with this guy. Recognize him? We call him the marketing ninja from Hell. He’ll sneak up on you and get you when you least expect it. 🙂 100 percent […]

Spam costing U.S. employers $130 million a day

Spam is flooding the Internet and now accounts for 94 percent of all emails. When discussing damage caused by spam, one thing that is rarely mentioned is the amount of time lost every day dealing with it. The old saying “time is money” holds as true as ever, and some simple calculations show that spam […]

Public uptime builds trust for web hosts

A web hosting company has a lot to gain by being open with their uptime. After all, their customers (and would-be customers) want to feel safe and know that their website is in good hands. An excellent way to do this is to use an external third-party uptime monitoring service such as Pingdom (we are […]

Five things you didn’t know about PING

PING is one of the most popular programs ever created, but where did it come from? Here are five things you probably didn’t know about PING. PING was created by Mike Muuss in December 1983 on a BSD UNIX system to find a network problem. Muuss had to code ICMP support into the BSD UNIX […]

Introduction to Observability

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Webpages Are Getting Larger Every Year, and Here’s Why it Matters

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A Beginner’s Guide to Using CDNs

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The Five Most Common HTTP Errors According to Google

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Page Load Time vs. Response Time – What Is the Difference?

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