Camelcamelcamel is a website that tracks prices of products sold on

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. Founded by Daniel Green in 2008 and developed by Cosmic Shovel Inc. In 2015 it was voted as the most popular price tracking tool among

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readers. Due to a failure of three hard drives on the database server on January 26, 2019, the service was unavailable for several days. The service itself listed a breakdown of the costs needed to recover the service. During the

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they agreed to Amazon's request to stop tracking prices in select regions. According to Cosmic Shovel Inc., the overall maintenance of camelcamelcamel amounts to about $11,000 per month.

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* {{Website-stub Comparison shopping websites