When twitter goes down: Website Monitoring
I’m always perturbed when I find the twitter whale. Huge websites with a lot of bandwidth really can’t afford to go down… ever. Google uses a cloud server type system with lots of fail safes. If one server goes down, Google transfers its resources to another server. I’m not sure how Twitter works, but they need to find a better solution when bandwidth becomes overwhelming.
Fortunately, I don’t have enough traffic on my websites that I would ever need to worry about an overload in bandwidth. However, I still use a free website monitoring tool to make sure my site stays up and active. I sure hate it when sites are down.