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Ping Brigade - measure how quickly your website loads from around the world
- Jabbles 16y agoVery nice, and potentially very useful, but you need more servers. 5 in US and 1 in France doesn't give very much information.
- erikano 16y ago> [...] you need more servers. I have no affiliation with this service, but I agree with your point and I too hope that they will get more servers.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoI don't really like the birds ("what does this have to do with twitter?"), but the site does look nice. Why should I go with this over, say, pingdom?
- medianama 16y agoThere is more to "around the world" than Five locations in US and One in France
- erikano 16y agoYeah I agree that they do have a little few servers, but I'm hoping they'll add more over time.
- wpeterson 16y agoI was excited this might measure user experienced page load times (with all referenced resources) but it's just another Pingdom Clone. This is a useful tool, but there are already many competitors who do this better (like Pingdom, or Yottaa).
- jhrobert 16y agoI had no clue that Pingdom could do that, I use it to monitor availibility, not to compare speed. I feel like PingParade is more a troubleshooting tool than a monitoring tool (this point), ie you use it one shot when you feel like something might be wrong, whereas you need Pingdom to keep trying, in order to detect failure ASAP.
- chadp 16y agoIf you are asking people to review then ask. If not, then don't state your service as around the world if it can only do 2 countries. Disappointing after getting excited by the title and spending 5 mins to learn about pinging from USA and France.
- erikano 16y ago> If you are asking people to review then ask. That was not why I posted it. > If not, then don't state your service as around the world if it can only do 2 countries. I have no affiliation with this service, I just found it useful and thought others might as well.
- jhrobert 16y agoThis is nice. You may want to share the code in order to set up some more locations. Assuming you implement some rate limit, I am sure that there would be some nice people happy to share some CPU with you.
- erikano 16y ago> You may want to share the code in order to set up some more locations. Again, I have no affiliation with this service. I do realize now that the title of the post might make it easy to assume I had though. Sorry about that.
- rrival 16y agoInteresting - hope it grows. I ran netstat.net back in the day - took it over when MCI threatened to sue its initial creator, then updated it and expanded it. We tracked latency to common ISP nameservers from ~15 locations in the US and Australia. It seemed a little more important when we had to deal with non-broadband latency (dialup was awesome). Interweather was another 'competitor.' As was the internet traffic report. And this makes me feel old: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1998-06/msg00401.html http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1998-06/msg00401.ht...