Salesforce CRM experiences sudden downtime

Salesforce.com (CRM) was down for around 30-40 minutes yesterday between 12:40 to 1:20 US Pacific time. Customers complained they were unable to access their accounts or were unable to reach the website in some cases. Salesforce's status page had a brief explanation of the outage.

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Find out what increases your web site load time

We came across a couple of articles on the internet which feature Site24x7. The first one is by Prem Godara in his Techno Mirror blog. ~He has an article about finding out what increases the loading time of a website. The article is titled "Does your website load slowly! Here's a solution" Prem mentions two tools - Si...


Monitor a group of Websites using Monitor Group

Do you manage websites belonging to multiple companies? Do you need to keep tabs on the uptime and performance of websites on a company-wise basis? The "monitor group" feature in Site24x7 will allow you to do just that. The monitor group lets you organize or group multiple monitors into a group. You can use this to tag dif...


An increase in Google Chrome users, more competition to IE?

Google yesterday announced their Chrome browser has come out of Beta. This is one of the fastest Google services to come out of beta tag. It has taken just over 3 months while some of the other Google services seem to be in Beta phase for a very long time. For example, Gmail is still in Beta even though it was launched in 2004. Google claims ...


Site24�7 Maintenance on November 27

On Thursday, November 27th, Site24x7 will be unavailable from approximately 06:40 hrs GMT to 08:40 hrs GMT due to system maintenance. You won't be able to log into your accounts during this time. However, your websites will continue to be monitored as usual. Sorry for the short notice and apologies for the inconvenience caused....


Site24x7 recommended in 'Beginning Microsoft Office Live' book

Site24x7's website monitoring service has been recommended in the book 'Beginning Microsoft Office Live' by Rahul Pitre. Rahul Pitre runs Acxede, a company that builds web-based applications for small and medium-sized businesses.

The book deals with learning all the basic functions of Microsoft Office Live and building we...


US Election coverage and use of technology

The US Presidential election 2008 was a truly global event. Barack Obama's victory was followed with great interest across the world and was an amazing occasion. What was even more amazing was the election coverage on major tv networks and the technology they used to show results. All major tv networks in the US such as CNN, Fox, NBC and...


Free Tool to Monitor your Website's Status

Author: AruniWeb blog, a blog that covers web hosting, web development, web design, internet marketing, etc, has recently mentioned Site24x7's website monitoring service. Site24x7 has been included as one of the examples in a recent blog post titled "3 Free Tools to Monitor your Website's Status

Here are a few excerp...


Firefox continues to eat into IE's market share

Author: ArunMozilla's Firefox browser touched 20% browser share worldwide for the first time ever in Oct 2008. In fact, it broke this mark twice during October. These numbers were provided by Net Applications, a service which tracks market share for browsers, search engines and operating systems across the globe. These were als...


Site24x7 Monitoring Network goes more Global

Author: ArunAlong with our Enterprise Account release last month, we also added more monitoring locations to our global monitoring network. These locations include Seattle, Chicago & Dallas in the United States, Germany in Europe, Australia, and South Africa in the African continent. This now takes our location count into the double ...