Q: Down For Everyone or Just Me ???

[Vin DSL]

Heh! This site answers the age-old-question...

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

It lets visitors type in a Web address and see whether a site is generally inaccessible or whether the problem is with their own connection.

Bookmark it!

[Spathiphyllum]

Now that's what I call pushing the KISS concept to its limit.

Concise. Simple. Effective.

Nice tip, Vin.

[Vin DSL]

Actually came in handy, this very day!

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/psi.secunia.com

...was down for a couple of hours!

I started a scan, and Secunia PSI downloaded the rules from their web site, but the scan failed because it couldn't contact the Secunia File Signature Server at the end of the scan.

Turned out psi.secunia.com was down for everyone, not just me...

Anyway, this is a keeper!

PS - The Secunia Sig Server is down again!!!

[Pawel Kowalski]

I would usually use remote desktop to connect to an outside computer or atunnel.com to check the site through a proxy, but this is much simpler. Sweet.

[Frank Broughton]

Thanks Vin for the find, indeed a good tool!

[homoludens]

Apple-orgies if this has already been mentioned in these forums. If you've bookmarked it in Firefox, you can change the bookmark properties to the following:

Name : downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Location : http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/%s
keyword: down

Then to test a domain, you only need to type the following into the address bar:

down example.com

You can do this for all sorts of services, eg:

Name : whois
Location : http://www.domaintools.com/go/?service=whois&q=%s
keyword: whois

Anywhere there's a basic and well-implemented search functionality you can right click on the search field and select "add a keyword for this search ...". They need to be adjusted manually sometimes, the isitdownblahblah site being a case in point.

There's also loads of these already built into firefox, including css, javascript, php, perl, python, c, etc, etc although the results can be a bit random at times.

[Gwaihir]

You can do this in IE as well by installing the PowerToys (free from MS). Makes most sense for IE6, as in IE7 there's the handy search box top-right for such things.