2010-May-27

iPRTG in a Completely New Version - Beta Testers Wanted

Since last August users of the popular smartphone Apple iPhone can download and install a dedicated app that brings PRTG to their phone. We have received a lot of feedback and requests for enhancements. During the last months our partner company beyond content went back into their labs and actually rewrote the whole app from scratch! New development tools for the iPhone and some new API calls on behalf of PRTG's API allowed the developers to come up with an app that just blows you away! So today I am happy to announce the new version 2 of iPRTG. See iPRTG 2 in action - start the video!

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2010-May-20

How to Use Google Font API for the Web Interface of PRTG Network Monitor

Yesterday Google have published their new "Google Fonts API" which enables webmasters to use a selection of attractive fonts for their websites. Usage of the service is free of charge. Using this API is a quick and straightforward way to individualize a PRTG installation. Here is a sample screenshot:

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2010-May-17

"Real World" Performance Comparison of CDN (Content Delivery Network) Providers

Since February visitors of our website http://www.cloudclimate.com have the possibility to measure "website asset delivery speed" of 24 CDN and cloud providers using their own internet connection (see the blog post). The results for each user are stored in our database and we now have gathered the performance results of 340,000 requests. There is something special about our test: We have "real surfer" measurements for the 24 providers because we have actually used the "real world" Internet connections of our website visitors to run the test requests. Most CDN comparison tests that we have seen published on the Internet were created by using just a few measurement points, and often - to make things even more unrealistic - the measurements were taken out of professional data centers (which, in most cases, have high speed connectivity anyway). 24% of the tests were run from inside the USA, 9% each from Germany and the UK, the rest came from countries all over the world. So now it is time to dive into the data and draw some conclusions.

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