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| 3/5/2010 |
Uptrends expands monitoring network with monitoring station in Madrid
Uptrends expands monitoring network.
We are pleased to inform you that we have expanded our network of monitoring stations. We have added a new monitoring station in Madrid Spain to improve our geographical coverage. The IP number of the new monitoring station is:
Madrid, Spain: 84.20.5.145
A complete list of Uptrends monitoring stations can be found at if you click here.
The new monitoring station will automatically appear in your settings. If you previously selected the "Random" checkpoint mode, Uptrends will automatically add the new checkpoint to your settings. Otherwise, you can simply add the new checkpoint to your list of checkpoints.
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| 3/1/2010 |
New checkpoint Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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| 2/22/2010 |
OpenOffice struggles to remain online
The website for OpenOffice.org, the popular open source alternative to Microsoft Office, continues to experience significant issues maintaining website availability, according to a 60-day study conducted by Uptrends.com, the global website monitoring company (www.uptrends.com).
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| 2/21/2010 |
New checkpoint in Recife, Brazil
We have added a new monitoring station in Recife, Brazil, to improve our geographical coverage.
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| 2/5/2010 |
Hotwire and TravelAgents.com Lag Behind Competitors
Hotwire.com and TravelAgents.com have both experienced considerably more downtime than any of their competitors in the online travel industry according to a recently released survey, according to the website monitoring company Uptrends, (www.uptrends.com).
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| 1/29/2010 |
Bank of America Website Crippled by Downtime
Bank of America has experienced severe issues with website availability today. According to data collected by the website monitoring company Uptrends, Bank of America has spent much of the last 4 hours offline.
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| 1/26/2010 |
Aid Organization Websites Offer Mixed Results in Aftermath of Haiti’s Disaster
In the aftermath of last week’s earthquake in Haiti, hundreds of disaster relief organizations are experiencing tremendous amounts of website traffic to collect donations. According to the website monitoring company Uptrends (www.uptrends.com), the majority of the websites are remaining online with little difficulty or downtime. Of the organizations being monitored, 11% have experienced some level of downtime.
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| 1/8/2010 |
Crunchgear missing in action
In one of the year’s most important weeks for consumer electronics, the popular industry blog Crunchgear.com was down for nearly two hours and was unable to report news updates from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
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| 12/29/2009 |
Most Website Errors in 2009 Caused by Application Errors
In a yearlong survey of thousands of websites, Uptrends reports that most errors that are viewed by website visitors in 2009 are caused by application errors.
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| 12/21/2009 |
Mashable.com Downtime Continues
Mashable.com, the popular technology blog, continues to be plagued by periods of extended downtime, as recorded by the website monitoring company Uptrends (www.uptrends.com). Today, starting at 1:40pm Pacific Standard Time, Mashable’s website went down for a period of 25 minutes. This is one of dozens of similar issues that have occurred for the popular technology blog in the last 12 months.
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| 12/8/2009 |
Universities Having Trouble Staying Online
Online Universities Having Trouble Staying Online
In a yearlong survey of university and college websites, higher education institutions may not be ready for the internet education revolution, reports the website monitoring company Uptrends (www.uptrends.com)
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| 11/24/2009 |
Some online retailers not ready for the holiday season
Some online retailers not ready for the holiday season
In a month long study leading up to “Black Friday”, the busiest shopping day in the United States, Uptrends monitored the home page of 100 of the most popular e-commerce sites and determined that a significant number of companies were still experiencing periods of downtime that were excessive in some cases.
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| 11/19/2009 |
Uptrends calendar update
Flexible calendar: custom time periods available. We have recently updated our calendar functionality to enable user-defined time periods beyond daily, weekly and monthly date ranges. And selecting a custom date range couldn’t be easier!
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| 11/3/2009 |
Google and Yahoo services have the same uptime
Uptrends.com (www.uptrends.com), the leading remote website and server monitoring company, reported that the online services of Google and Yahoo have exactly the same average uptime of 99.9 percent, which is a good result.
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| 10/1/2009 |
Downtime Means Lost Revenue for Online Stores
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| 9/21/2009 |
Uptrends Opens New US Office
SAN FRANCISCO, September 21, 2009--Uptrends.com (www.uptrends.com), a leading provider of remote monitoring services for websites, servers and transactions, has announced the opening of a full-service office in San Francisco as part of an effort to fortify its connection to customers in the North American market, according to the company’s co-founder, Niels Brinkman.
“The new office is headed by Mr. Andrew Stock,” said Brinkman, “and we are truly enthusiastic about the capabilities he brings to our offering in this very important market. Uptrends is experiencing double-digit growth this year, so the new office will facilitate the continuation of that growth along with the quality service and customer care for which we are known.”
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| 9/9/2009 |
Secure login connections and new SMS provider
Uptrends released a new version today. This version includes enhancements for better security and stability. One of the new features is that we now take you to the secure area of our website, as soon as you log in on the Uptrends homepage. By providing you with this SSL connection (note the 'https' part in the address bar of your browser), we help you to keep your login information and your company's sensitive report data safe. We take you to the secure area automatically when you log in on the regular homepage. You can also go to the secure website directly, by using this URL: https://www.uptrends.com.
We added a new European based SMS provider to our system. We now have two SMS gateways based in Europe, and one in the USA. Each gateway has a global coverage of SMS/text message delivery, but we let you select your preferred gateway, to ensure reliable delivery of Uptrends alert messages to your mobile phone network.
When you signed up for Uptrends, we tried to select the best SMS gateway for your location. This means that you do not have to change anything in your account right now. If you want to change your SMS delivery settings, click on 'Settings' in the menu, activate the Settings tab and select your preferred SMS gateway.
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| 7/29/2009 |
DNS check probe type available
A brand new probe type is available for Uptrends customers: DNS check. This check allows you to perform various queries on a DNS name server. The most common thing to check, is whether your domain name (www.yourcompany.com) is still pointing to the IP address of your web server. Your provider’s name server is the primary, first-hand source of this information. By monitoring this DNS query directly, we will detect any DNS problems, even before your website becomes unavailable for your visitors and customers.
Uptrends' DNS probe lets you do extensive DNS health checks: verify your web site domain names (A and CNAME records), mail server domain name mappings (MX records), DNS zone delegates (NS records), authoritative information about DNS zones (SOA records) and other DNS information, contained in TXT records (including SPF information for e-mail authentication).
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| 7/1/2009 |
Monitoring network new IP addresses Las Vegas and San Francisco
Starting Thursday, July 2nd, the following additional IP addresses will be used for monitoring from Las Vegas and San Francisco:
Las Vegas 64.235.53.60
San Francisco 69.94.133.36
The new IP addresses will automatically appear in your settings. If you previously selected "Random"checkpoint mode, Uptrends will automatically add the new monitoring IP addresses to your settings. Otherwise, you can simply add the new IP addresses to your list of checkpoints
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| 7/1/2009 |
Uptrends is hiring a US based Business Development Manager
The Business Development Manager USA, who will report directly to the CEO, is expected to prospect and develop new customer leads, introduce the Uptrends monitoring service and close the deal. This is a direct sales position that will generally be conducted via telephone and the Internet. The Business Development Manager will be expected to call into various groups within a prospective customer segment, particularly the IT and administrative strata, and will of course have the acumen required to understand their specific needs. Initially, you will work from home; however, with your proven success and ability to achieve the set goals, you will assume the responsibility of setting up the US sales office and organization.
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| 5/6/2009 |
New checkpoint in Stockholm
Uptrends.com (www.uptrends.com), the leading remote website and server monitoring company, has expanded its network of monitoring stations. We have added new monitoring stations in Stockholm, Sweden to improve our geographical coverage.
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| 4/30/2009 |
New checkpoints in Shanghai, Singapore and Frankfurt
Uptrends.com (www.uptrends.com), the leading remote website and server monitoring company, has expanded its network of monitoring stations. We have added new monitoring stations in Shanghai, Singapore and Frankfurt to improve our geographical coverage. Additionally, our monitoring station in Chicago has a new IP address.
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| 4/14/2009 |
New CheckPoint Brussels, Belgium
Uptrends.com (www.uptrends.com), the leading remote website and server monitoring company, reports today that the Uptrends network of monitoring stations has been expanded again, by adding a new checkpoint in Brussels, Belgium.
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| 2/1/2009 |
Most search engines have an excellent uptime
Uptrends.com (www.uptrends.com), the leading remote website and server monitoring company, reported that the websites of the most popular search engines on the internet have an excellent uptime. A good uptime improves the visitor and user experience.
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| 1/13/2009 |
XML webservice extended
The Uptrends XML Web service has been extended. Uptrends users can use this web service to automatically obtain data from their Uptrends account, and use this data for reporting and/or alerting using legacy monitoring systems.
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| 12/10/2008 |
Uptrends.com introduces free tools to check load time and uptime of websites
Uptrends.com (www.uptrends.com), the leading remote website and server monitoring company, has launched Uptrends Tools. Every webmaster can use the free website tools to optimize the performance of their website.
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| 11/1/2008 |
Newsletter November 2008
Uptrends expands global monitoring network in USA, Canada and Germany.
We are happy to inform you that the Uptrends network of monitoring stations expands again. We have added new checkpoints in Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver and Berlin.
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| 10/1/2008 |
Newsletter October 2008
Uptrends expands global monitoring network in USA
We are happy to inform you that the Uptrends network of monitoring stations expands again. We have added new checkpoints in New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. In the near future we will add more checkpoints in different countries.
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| 9/24/2008 |
Websites of universities sometimes not available
Uptrends.com (www.uptrends.com), the leading remote website and server monitoring company, reported that the websites of some universities in the USA have experienced downtime and are sometimes not available for students or visitors.
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| 8/26/2008 |
New CheckPoint New York City, USA
Uptrends.com (www.uptrends.com), the leading remote website and server monitoring company, today reported that the Uptrends network of monitoring stations expands again. We have added a new checkpoint in New York USA.
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| 6/16/2008 |
Uptime US newspaper websites better than UK newspaper websites
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| 4/29/2008 |
Social networks uptime should improve
Uptrends.com ( www.uptrends.com ), the leading remote website and server monitoring company, today reported that some social networks experience serious downtime and are not available for visitors. Four of the twenty two social networks had an uptime of 99.9 percent which is good. Eleven had an uptime of 100 percent which is excellent. The social network which was not available for more than 20 hours during the last 30 days is Blackplanet.com. This social network had an uptime of 97.2 percent.
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| 8/22/2007 |
Blogger.com and blogspot.com down for 75 minutes
Uptrends.com ( www.uptrends.com ), the leading remote website and server monitoring company with worldwide checkpoints, today reported that Google?s popular service www.blogger.com and www.blogspot.com have experienced serious downtime for more than an hour. The website and thousands of blogs could not be reached by thousands of users and visitors. The downtime started today at 9.47 AM US Eastern Time. The problem was solved and the website and blogs could be reached at 11 AM US Eastern Time.
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| 6/20/2007 |
New checkpoint in Sydney
Uptrends.com ( www.uptrends.com ), the leading remote website and server monitoring company, today reported that the Uptrends network of monitoring stations expands again. We have added a new checkpoint in Sydney Australia.
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