Comment by brentm
3 days ago
Yea I am pretty sure that if you're checking if a service is down your essentially casting a vote that indicates that service is down.
3 days ago
Yea I am pretty sure that if you're checking if a service is down your essentially casting a vote that indicates that service is down.
Kind of a missed opportunity for Ookla - who's running both downdetector.com and speedtest.net.
The have software running in most ISPs around the world:
https://help.speedtest.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039164793-Ho...
(OTOH, it's not always trivial to define/detect an outage.)