Archive for March, 2010

Uptime Monitoring Data in WordPress Panel

We have prepared a WordPress plugin that integrates website-monitoring.com user panel with WordPress.
If you are using WP as your CMS, just install the plugin in 3 easy steps and forget about the separate interface. All your uptime history (charts & tables) will become available to you in your WP panel.

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Facebook Facts & Figures (history & statistics)

This infographic is obsolete, check Facebook Facts & Figures 2011 edition

Facebook history, milestones, user activity statistics, top 10 countries, top 10 Facebook pages.

Facebook Facts & Figures

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Top 10 Domain Registrars (and their prices)

The largest ICANN domain Registrar – GoDaddy – possesses almost 30% of the market. GoDaddy has always been offering great prices (and lots of value added services) – and probably this is the reason of their place on the vault. The runner up – Enom – is far behind with its 8% of the market share.

The table below shows 12 registrars – because two from the first 10 don’t have a retail offer – only for resellers.

# Registrar Total domains .com 1st year price
1 godaddy.com 32.8 mln $ 10.87
2 enom.com 9.1 mln $ 29.95
3 hover.com (tucows.com) 7.4 mln $ 15
4 networksolutions.com 6.4 mln $ 34.99
5 schlund.de 4.7 mln $ 16.22
6 melbourneit.com 4.5 mln $ 35
- wildwestdomains.com 3.1 mln wholesale only
7 moniker.com 2.7 mln $ 8.02
8 register.com 2.5 mln $ 35
- resellerclub.com 2.4 mln wholesale only
9 xinnet.com 1.7 mln $ 18.74
10 domaindiscount24.net (key-systems.net) 1.4 mln $ 13.75

Data collected on 15th of March, 2010.

Sources:
Largest ICANN Registrars (number of domains)
– Registrars’ websites (prices)
Universal Currency Converter (currency conversions).

12 Free Website Monitoring Services

Perhaps you are not aware of it, but there are plenty of places where you can get a totally free website monitoring service for your website.
Of course you can google the “free website monitoring” keyword and check site by site, but… don’t. We did it for you.

In the first place we have excluded all the “free trial” options. They are free, but only for a limited time – usually 7 to 30 days. Afterwards you need to pay or resign.
Then we have visited tens of websites offering a real free and time-unlimited service of website availability monitoring. We have chosen twelve of them – that seemed working and reliable. There are some slightly differences among them, but the only important feature that lets compare them is the frequency of the tests.
While commercial monitoring services offer intervals down to 1 minute, free ones check your website every 5-60 minutes.
(60 minute interval has no sense at all. Imagine server administrator that wouldn’t notice and fix the failure in 1 hour…).

OK, here is the list with links. The choice is – as always – yours.

Free Service Provider Tests Interval
100pulse.com 15 minutes
247webmonitoring.com 15 minutes
alertfox.com 60 minutes
basicstate.com 15 minutes
freewebmonitoring.com 60 minutes
host-tracker.com 30 minutes
montastic.com 30 minutes
pingability.com 15 minutes
siteprobe.com 60 minutes
siteuptime.com 30 minutes
uptrends.com 30 minutes
website-monitoring.com 5 minutes

If you need a professional 1-minute monitoring service, check the “15 website monitoring services compared” article.

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