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Blog Host Tumblr Secures $30M Investment for Data Center Expansion

December 20, 2010 – With nearly 50 hours of downtime over the span of two months, blog hosting site Tumblr announced on Friday it has raised $30 million in additional funding to expand its data center infrastructure, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.n

Pingdom Launches Blog Plugin to Display Web Host and Service Provider Status

August 26, 2010 – Uptime and performance monitoring firm Pingdom has released a free Pingdom status plugin for the world’s most widespread blogging platform, WordPress, to make it easier for Web service and hosting providers to update the status of their services.

Twitter's Uptime Has Not Improved: CheckMySite.com

November 19, 2009 — Global uptime monitoring service CheckMySite.com has reported that popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter, has not improved upon its less-than-perfect record of reliability.

RIPE Launches New Site To Explain IPv6

May 20, 2009 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Non-profit Internet organisation RIPE NCC has launched “IPv6 Act Now,” a website explaining the new Internet protocol in terms everyone can understand, and urging all organisations to adopt IPv6, which is integral to the future growth of the Internet.

Top Sites Run Old Google Analytics Script

April 8, 2009 — In a survey of the Internet’s top 10,000 websites, web site monitoring and analytics firm Pingdom has found that half use Google Analytics, however, out of those sites 40 percent are still using the old version of the Google Analytics script that may stop working within the next few months.

IPv6 Support At Meager Four Percent

March 9, 2009 — Growing from 2.4 to 4 percent in 2008, the adoption of next-generation Internet layer protocol IP version 6 is going too slow, which will result in there being no IPv4 address space left if IPv6 is not fully adopted within three years, according to online performance and monitoring provider Pingdom.

Future Hosting Adds Server Monitoring

October 23, 2008 — Online solutions provider Future Hosting has partnered with web site monitoring firm Pingdom to offer proactive server monitoring for managed virtual private servers customers.

Major Internet Outages: Pingdom

September 5, 2008

Major Internet Outages

September 5, 2008 — High-capacity launches, DNS server failures, cloud infrastructure failure and buggy third-parties were some of the reasons servers went offline in the first half of 2008 according to the Royal Pingdom blog.

Firefox 3 Rejects Self-Signed SSLs

August 20, 2008 — While expired and self-signed SSL certificates may have warranted yellow flags in Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer, the latest Firefox will scare away users from SSL-carrying sites unless they are certified by a third party.