Down For Everyone or Just Me?

[David Baxter PhD]

Down For Everyone or Just Me?
by Daniel Scocco

Downforeveryoneorjustme.com will basically perform a quick check to see if the website you are currently seeing down is actually down for everyone else or just for you. This is very useful because sometimes your website will appear to be down, but in reality you might be having ISP or DNS problems, and you are the only person not being able to see it. In those cases, obviously, this tool could help you not to freak out.

I am not really sure how accurate the tool is (this depends on the number of servers they are using, and on their physical distance and IP diversity), but from basic tests I performed it will report the real situation most of the times.

There you go, bookmark it, and the next time you see a website down, just paste the URL there to see what is going on.

 

[sister-ray]

Thats a helpful site, do they do that pinging thing which I think you can do from the DOS prompt it sends a packet to the site and the site responds, something like that

 

[David Baxter PhD]

I'm not certain, actually.

 

[sister-ray]

This is what I meant I think they might be doing this.

What is ping? - Knowledge Base

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Yes, I'm familiar with pinging, but I can't tell from the script on that opage whether that's the technique they're using.