Last night a major partner of ours suffered an upstream network issue, causing major performance issues for our Business hosting service and millions of sites around North America. The issue with CloudFlare lasted less than an hour, but it isn’t the problem that was interesting, it was the way the network adapted and allowed as…
MxToolBox is a trusted monitor and analyser of mail systems around the world. We were humbled today to get another reminder from the MxToolBox team letting us know that our shared email system is still rated at 100% by their team. Our team works very hard to keep our server reputation as high as possible,…
Nerds On Site has maintained a Trust Site for quite some time now, which is powered by Pingdom and provides realtime availability statistics for our shared hosting platform. We’ve now upgraded our Trust Site to include a breaking email alert system. Once you subscribe to this system you will get instant and breaking status alerts…
Overview: Average of all checks Uptime Outages Response time 99.92% 17 513 ms Checks with downtime Check name Uptime Downtime Outages Response time Linux Shared Hosting 99.86% 1h 00m 00s 4 1032 ms SMTP Services 99.93% 0h 29m 58s 5 272 ms IMAP Services 99.95% 0h 20m 01s 4 373 ms POP Services 99.95% 0h…
Google recently released their first summary report based on two years of anonymous web statistics gathered from hundreds of thousands of websites that opted into their anonymous data sharing pool. The results of this reports are quite interesting, and show a marked decrease in the amount of time the average consumer spends on each website.…
Jess3.com has put together some fascinating information and infographics charting the biggest players in our online, wired world. Here is a taste: Read the rest of this fascinating post here: http://jess3.com/geosocial-universe-2/
Our team is re-configuring our Trust Site to ensure that absolutely no downtime in the Nerds On Site systems can affect it. Our Trust Site will be down for about the next 24 hours while the new DNS settings propagate. Once the new DNS settings propagate, our Trust Site will not be hosted on any…
For quite some time, we at Nerds On Site have been proclaiming how important it is for a hosting company to share it’s availability statistics. Well, we’ve taken another step forward in this front, and have recently launched our new trust.nerdsisp.com site! Fully redesigned, our site now offers live statistics. Previously, our site only displayed…
2010 saw plenty of high-profile outages for social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and free hosting services, as well as at least four major outages for e-commerce services. There were also incidents that knocked government services offline for days. Read a full accounting of 2010’s major outages: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/12/22/2010-the-year-in-downtime/
You can have the best website in the world, but if it isn’t up, what good is it? While you might struggle to put an exact dollar figure on the cost of downtime for your business, you know it’s there. Every moment that your website is down is time that client’s can’t learn about your…