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What the inside of a container data center looks like
via Royal Pingdom by royal on May 09, 2008
There has been a lot of talk about container data centers lately (sometimes also called modular data centers). Most of the time we are only presented with an image of a branded shipping container, but let’s face it, all the interesting stuff is on the inside!So, since we were curious, we here at Pingdom dug through various product pages and presentations to find pictures of the insides of...
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The state of Linux according to Google
via Royal Pingdom by royal on January 22, 2008
This is a look at the state of Linux through the eyes of Google Trends, Google’s highly useful search trend analyzer.The Linux distributions comparedEveryone says Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution, and boy does it become obvious when looking at it through Google’s eyes.
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Web hosting now vs 10 years ago
via Royal Pingdom by royal on February 19, 2008
It’s no secret that there has been an on-going war over customers in the web hosting industry for many years. Together with the technical evolution of computer hardware, this fierce competition has drastically increased what you get for your money when you buy a web hosting account.The people behind Pingdom originally came from the web hosting industry, so we tend to keep an eye on the...
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When geeks and graffiti combine
via Royal Pingdom by royal on February 28, 2008
There is a lot of geeky graffiti out there. Some are just scribbles on a wall (programmer art being as it is), and some definitely qualify as artwork.It’s no secret that we here at Pingdom are geeks ourselves, and we had a “geek graffiti collection marathon” the other night where we found some really cool pictures from around the world. We have narrowed it down to 13 pictures, all with some...
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Future internet speeds – download a DVD in 0.0023 seconds
via Royal Pingdom by royal on March 03, 2008
... is also good news from an uptime perspective, which lies close to our hearts (Pingdom being an uptime monitoring service). Lightning-fast data synchronization between multiple data centers is a Good Thing ™, especially for websites and services that use more than one location to provide redundancy.Google could stop using FedExIn a previous post (FedEx still faster than the internet) ...
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Transatlantic cable handled 8 words a minute in 1866
via Royal Pingdom by royal on March 05, 2008
Today we have transatlantic cables of massive capacity, handling all sorts of telecom traffic (including the internet). However, these submarine cables had a modest beginning. The first successfully deployed commercial transatlantic cable was in 1866, after a decade-long series of less successful attempts. Sending messages over this cable was incredibly expensive.The cost of speed in 1866The 1866...
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An open feature request to StumbleUpon
via Royal Pingdom by royal on March 12, 2008
StumbleUpon is a great way to find interesting and fun material on the internet. However, just as with Digg, sometimes you land on pages that are either very slow or won’t respond at all, which can be very frustrating. So here is a suggestion that would make the stumbling even easier and more efficient: Automatically skip websites when they are slow or won’t respond. Just stumble on to the...
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How five top-name web hosting providers have grown since 2005
via Royal Pingdom by royal on March 14, 2008
We decided to analyze how five of the most talked-about web hosting companies have grown over the last few years. The results are really interesting.Since we didn’t have inside information about these companies, we looked at the number of domain names on their DNS servers, and how these numbers have changed over time (from April 2005 to December 2007).The web hosting companies we included...
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Slashdot down for more than 5 hours
via Royal Pingdom by royal on April 30, 2008
For more than five hours today the so-called Slashdot effect was completely absent on the internet. Why? Because Slashdot.org, the extremely popular technology news website that inspired Kevin Rose to create Digg, was according to our monitoring unavailable from 09:38 CET this morning (03:38 US EST) and only came back up a few minutes ago (14:48 CET, 08:48 US EST).Sourceforge (Sourceforge.net),...
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