Webuser Forums: A useful Aid for checking if that site is offline or dead

Just caught this on Google News and its looks a useful aid to comfirm if a Site is Down and you have not got access to online contacts to test the Link out

Worth a Webby Award for its Simplicity

http://tinyurl.com/2008-07-06-Site-tests-for-Web

[QUOTE] SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 (UPI) -- A San Francisco computer engineer has started a Web site that allows Internet users to find out whether their favorite site is working properly.

Alex Payne, 24, created http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com, as in, "Down for everyone, or just me?" The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) reported Sunday

The service allows visitors to type in a Web address and see whether a site is generally inaccessible or whether the problem is with their own Internet connection, the newspaper reported.

"I had seen that question posed so often," Payne said. "Technology companies have branded the Internet as a place that is always on and where information is always available. People are disappointed and looking for answers when it turns out not to be true."

Jesse Robbins, a former Amazon executive responsible for keeping Amazon online from 2004 to 2006, said frustration over down sites is understandable.
He said companies "have a responsibility to people who rely and depend on them, just as people going over a public bridge expect that the bridge won't suddenly collapse."
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