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Is it down for everyone or just me?
A Quick Way To See If a website is down for Everyone or Just You written by Twitter developer Alex Payne
- wave 19y agoSuggestion: instead of saying "Check another site?" on the result page, just add an input box to test another page.
- reitzensteinm 19y agohttp://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/q?domain=downforeveryoneorjustme.com http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/q?domain=downforeveryoneo... They special cased their own domain. I love attention to detail like that.
- brianr 19y agoAnother good one: http://lolinator.com/lol/lolinator.com/ http://lolinator.com/lol/lolinator.com/
- TheTarquin 19y agoMmm, indeed. I have a bit of a fetish for good design, and some times what is really called for is the right "if/then/else" construct. It's really unfortunate sometimes that "general cases > special cases" fundamentalism is so rampant these days, . . .
- thingsilearned 19y agoCool app. My first try resulted in this "It's not just you! digg.com looks down from here." But I don't think its really down. At least not from here :).
- wave 19y agoGood idea. Can find a different domain name? It is long.
- r7000 19y agoClever and simple. A nice combination.
- admoin 19y agoyeah, a cool little app
- Monti 19y agoyeah, agreed.
- jgrahamc 19y agoI wrote a 'similar' thing called l8tr (http://l8tr.org http://l8tr.org) that mails you when a down web site comes back.
- Kaizyn 19y agoThere's also plenty of real estate for banner ads on the main page! That will make it easier to monetize the service.
- JulianMontez 19y agoIt's some sites like these that make me wonder,"Why didn't I think of that?" Plus, it would save me some time answering questions in various IRC channels.
- staunch 19y agoI think it's a great example of noticing a common problem that no one has solved (to my knowledge) and providing a solution that's damned obvious in retrospect. The domain might be too long to remember. Maybe something like downorjustme.com (available) would be better. Oddly though, it says youtube.com is down (maybe that's your test case?).
- cvg 19y agoTheir host must be in China
- noonespecial 19y agoThey should make a little widget that others can load on their servers to help in the effort: Down from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in France, Up from yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy in New Zealand Etc
- alex_c 19y agoI like these simple one-question-one-answer sites, though I never remember about them when I actually need a specific one. This one is the first Google hit for "down for everyone" though, so that should take care of the long domain name. I wonder if it only pings from one location? (it probably doesn't account for "down for some people" dns problems).
- dkasper 19y ago"...though I never remember about them when I actually need a specific one." Could be a good use case for bookmarks.... ;-)
- ivankirigin 19y agothe latest meme is to call them "single serving websites" They're awesome http://www.kottke.org/08/02/single-serving-sites http://www.kottke.org/08/02/single-serving-sites
- zealog 19y agoI saw this the other day and thought it was pretty neat. I'm a little unclear how it works. Does it actually attempt to load a page from the requested site or does it simply log the number of people asking about it and assume that something is down by the volume of requests? If the 2nd one, I can see how it could be pretty flawed, easily gamed, and only usable with some serious critical mass. (It could also explain the YouTube thing if lots of people are using that to check it out).
- apgwoz 19y agoI assumed it just requested the '/' with an HTTP request...
- martianpenguin 19y agowhen i do it to my server i get two "HEAD /" http requests from their ip.
- martianpenguin 19y agoThis could be why it shows youtube as down: curl -I -A "" www.youtube.com curl -I -A "" www.google.com I suggest to whoever made that site to put a user agent string in the request.
- pierrefar 19y agoRequest details: Remote: xvm-189-204.ghst.net (217.70.189.204) Request: HTTP/1.1 HEAD UA: downforeveryoneorjustme.com Also sets the HTTP_ACCEPT header to /. No referer or any other header. Pierre
- philh 19y agoThis is neat. I'd like to see it extended to things other than websites, like MSN messenger. Not sure how that would work though.
- huhtenberg 19y agoHow exactly does it work though ? Specifically how big is the "everyone" sample ?
- eru 19y agoSecond question: 1.
- jasonlbaptiste 19y agohehe, is this a play off of "istwitterdown.com"
- axod 19y agohttp://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube.com http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube.com youtube is down is it? :/ Good idea, but an error like that doesn't fill me with confidence ;)
- mynameishere 19y agohttp://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.c... Seems to be working. By the way, who exactly upmodded this?
- mburns 19y agoIt incorrectly reports my site (mirwin dot net) as down, but adding (www.) makes it report as up. Kind of odd.
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- aquateen 19y agoThis seems to be popular? Why? How often would this be useful and save time? In what situations would a website be down for just you? Couldn't you just curl, ping, or traceroute a website instead?
- jmtulloss 19y agoNot if you don't know what those things are.
- curi 19y agothe text field is a little too hard to notice in safari given the pre-entered text. i suggest adding a thicker border and using javascript to select it on pageload.
- Monti 19y agovery good and simple idea.
- TrevorJ 19y agoLovely idea.
- TrevorJ 19y agoCan somebody make a script for Firefox that automatically queries this site when the browser is unable to resolve a URL and then returns a dialog letting the user know if the site is truly down? That would be epic.
- asmosoinio 19y agoIronically, it seems to be down, at least for me, right now! I got one query done, but nothing after that. -- Edit: Ok, works again.
- ciscoriordan 19y agoI heard about this site here yesterday, and already had a chance to use it today to test out if a newly registered domain worked elsewhere.
- ecommercematt 19y agoWikipedia.org is down presently, and it is nice to know it is down for everyone and not just me. I hope they come back up soon, as I feel crippled by its absence.
- tlrobinson 19y agoHeh, I actually just used it... It's not just you! wikipedia.org looks down from here.
- trenchfever 19y agoIts buggy. Too aggressive timeout perhaps? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bsnl.co.in http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bsnl.co.in