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WebFaction

Developer Tools — Hosting for developers [Developer Tools, Tech]
Developer Toolssaasest. 2017
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 16.4 · 2/4
16.4
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
37
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
37 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 37 probesavg response 10007 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#43,226
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

WebFaction's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. Its Pulse Index is 16.4 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 3 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
DigitalOceandev-toolscurated40.00.0● live
Renderdev-toolscurated40.00.0● live
Herokudev-toolscurated40.00.0● live
Twin Primedev-toolssimilar100%16.5+8.0→ redirected
Fir.imdev-toolssimilar100%12.40.0— unverified
Userflowdev-toolssimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
TestMunkdev-toolssimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Hardenizedev-toolssimilar100%43.60.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelsaas
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives3
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:14Z9999timeout
2026-08-26 09:43Z10000timeout
2026-08-19 14:04Z10007timeout
2026-08-11 00:39Z10017timeout
2026-08-08 06:33Z10022timeout
2026-08-05 18:52Z10030timeout
2026-07-30 18:06Z10008timeout
2026-07-23 09:28Z10002timeout
2026-07-22 09:31Z9999timeout
2026-07-21 09:32Z10007timeout
2026-07-20 10:00Z9999timeout
2026-07-19 09:11Z10001timeout
2026-07-18 08:51Z10000timeout
2026-07-17 09:14Z10000timeout
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · WebFaction · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/webfaction · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.