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With web hosting services like Rackspace going down time<\/a>, and time again<\/a>, Down For Everyone Or Just Me<\/a> has become a hot spot to check to see if a lagging site is down for everyone, or just you. The site was created as a side project by longtime Twitter engineer Alex Payne, and has managed to grow quite a large following.<\/p>\n Over the weekend, Payne sold the site to Bweeb, Inc, which is known for running Site5 Web Hosting. Although Payne isn’t too sure what Bweeb’s plans are for the site, I suspect they’ll keep its functionality largely the same (and people will keep coming to it).<\/p>\n In a blog post<\/a>, Payne mentions that the site hasn’t received that much attention lately, and wanted a new owner that would continue development of the site and add some new features.<\/p>\n I had numerous feature requests after the site launched, but turning it into a robust, multi-homed uptime checker was never my goal. All I\u2019ve ever done with the site is:<\/p>\n 1. Ported it from a simple Ruby implementation to App Engine. The price of the sale was not disclosed, but Payne also mentioned that “it was proportional to the amount of time and effort I\u2019ve put into it (that is, not much).” Payne has also made the source code<\/a> of the site public again.<\/p>\n Crunch Network<\/em><\/strong>: CrunchBoard<\/a> <\/em>because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0<\/p>\n\n
\n2. Put some ads on it; first Google AdWords, then later individual campaigns that I negotiated by email. I made about USD $300\/month from the site, on average.
\n3. Wired up a Twitter account that would tweet out sites that were frequently seen by the service as \u201cdown\u201d within a short time period. (This functionality has been inactive since November, 2008.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n