A Quick Way To See If a Website Is Down For Everyone or Just You

by Scott Beale on March 14, 2008 · 10 comments

Down for everyone or just me?

“Down for everyone or just me?” is a great little website created by Twitter developer Alex Payne that helps you check to see if a website is down for everyone or just you. For instance a website might be up, but you could be having connectivity problems with your ISP or local network.

We’ve started giving this link to our web hosting customers as one of the resources to use for troubleshooting when they think one of our servers is down, but it is actually a connectivity issue on their end.

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1 Jason Butler March 14, 2008 at 1:10 pm

Great tool – who hasn’t asked that EXACT question!
You may have to try using the site more than once! The first time I tried it I was notified that my site was really down when it wasn’t. I immediately tried it again and it (correctly) indicated that it was up.

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2 Tobin Coziahr March 14, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Ironically, the site is down.

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3 Helen Thompson Mosher March 14, 2008 at 1:32 pm

You might want to add this link to the laughingsquid wordpress.com blogroll–the knitster folks know to go there when they are having problems.

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4 Scott Beale March 14, 2008 at 1:57 pm

Helen, we added a link to it from our server status page.

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5 k March 15, 2008 at 7:36 am

is it really wise to use a “web site” to check if it is the “web site” or your connection that is at fault?

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