How to check whether a site is up or down
Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Richard Catto 1,326 views
This is a common problem that afflicts anyone who uses the Internet. Sometimes you type in a url to a site you use often and find you can’t get it to load. So then you wonder where the fault lies. Is the site really down or has something gone wrong with your ISP or perhaps even your own connection to the Internet?
Well someone, Alex Payne to be precise, decided to create a web site to answer that very question.
It’s called Down for everyone or just me?
You just type in the url you want to access and hit enter and it’ll tell you whether or not it can access the site or not.
That gives you some valuable information to help you decide where the problem lies. The Down for everyone site is itself hosted on Google’s servers, so obviously if Google is down, it will be too.
Ironically, Alex Payne works for twitter which often experiences down time, which is perhaps what gave him the impetus to create this online web service in the first place.
You can read more about this over on the New York Times.
Tags: Alex Payne, online
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One Response to “How to check whether a site is up or down”
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Chris M Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 20:51Now that’s a useful resource, nice one Richard!
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