Pingdom in numbers: 37 billion site tests so far this year

Our server infrastructure has a lot of work to do, it’s quite a busy bee. When you monitor the uptime and response time of as many websites and servers on the Internet as we do, and do it on a continuous basis, the numbers quickly add up. Just for fun, we thought we’d share some of these numbers with you.

Initially a couple of year-to-date numbers for the Pingdom monitoring arrangement:

• Tests performed so far this year: 37 billion
• Alerts sent out so far this year (all alerts to all contacts): 31 million

The alert number is the sum of all alerts via email, SMS, Chirrup, iPhone push notifications, etc.

And what in this area right now? Here is a snapshot of our current hourly workload…

Read the rest of this article over at the Pingdom blog (our “product blog”).

This was a post from the guys at Pingdom, a site monitoring service that makes sure you’re the initially to know when your site is down. Check it out for free.

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Pingdom in numbers: 37 billion site tests so far this year

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