Down for Everyone or Just Me?

In light of last Thursday’s DDoS¹ attacks against Twitter, LiveJournal, and Facebook (apparently Blogger was also targeted too?), the website Down for Everyone or Just Me? was very handy to use when checking whether or not these outages were experienced by everyone or if it was just my computer being iffy before news was released that the cause was a DoS attack.

Basically, Down for Everyone or Just Me? checks to see if the site is up and running and will tell you whether the site is experiencing actual downtime or if it’s just your ISP/browser/computer that can’t view the website. I’ve been using it more often than I’d like to as of late as it seems the quality of my internet connection has decreased in the last few months, but it’s much more convenient to use Down for Everyone or Just Me? rather than frantically asking those on Twitter whether or not others can see a site I can’t load in my browser!

1. Distributed Denial of Service. [↩]

Cross-posted from breakthesky.net. Please leave any comments there.