Down for everyone or just me?

Haha I agree, we all have been in that situation where we keep refreshing and still not sure if its us or the site.

 

Ah yes, I've heard of this before. Very handy indeed.

 

This has really helped me a lot since I started my first forum. There were times that I couldn't access my own site (somehow the server blocked my IP, the owner, go figure) and this saved me some headache. :p

 

That use to happen to me when I was on freehosting like 000webshost.. its very annoying.

 

I use this site all the time for one site I visit often that has lots of downtime.

 

This is a very handy url to know, there are a couple others out there that do the same.
I've used this a number of times to see if a site was up or if my firewall was blocking it.

 

I love using this. :-) It's fast, and reluctant. But if I'm ever in the mood, I'll just use the old handy dandy start -> cmd -> "ping www.websitename.com" and if I get a reply then I'll know it's up. I'm not sure if you can rely on it though.

 

Yeah its a great site. If you want to have fun just input http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ in the box and see what happens.

 

Oh how i remember using this. Was quite useful back in the day, and especially where i live with buggy internet.. its quite essential.
Btw did you guys know you can do this to ping your site? Yeah..

 

This is great, I have used this quite a few times as I live in the country side and certain parts of my house gets bad internet connection.