Archive for the ‘Webmaster Things’ Category
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
CDN provider SimpleCDN has been down since last few days, with their customers venting their anger via online channels such as twitter.
To know more about what a CDN is, please read this post.
The reason given by them :-
Dear SimpleCDN Customer,
I am writing this letter to update you on a situation ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
Realtime web analytics service whos.amung.us has been completely down for at least the last 3 hours (as of sept 12 4:28pm UTC). Thousands of webmasters (myself included) use this widget to gather realtime traffic stats for websites. The current outage has caused big problems to the sites implementing this widget.
Lets ...
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Saturday, September 11th, 2010
Ive been using DFP (DoubleClick for Publishers - formerly Google Ad Manager) to serve ads as it has some certain features I really need.
The downside of using DFP is that its browser side performance sucks big time. On my site, I use the experimental Iframe tagging, which basically writes an ...
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
FAILing all the time is not new for Twitter, in fact they are the masters of FAIL. Twitter FAILs so often that seeing the obnoxious FAIL WHALE on a daily basis has become a way of life for most of us. Twitter is so experienced in the art of FAIL, ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
I am planing to do a series of posts on analyzing popular websites I visit frequently. By now I am so obsessed to optimize for speed that I've run out of sites to optimize, hence I'm doing it for other sites.
To start with I'll analyze Search Engine Roundtable.
Before I start, ...
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