What is Pingdom and why use it?
Pingdom is a highly acclaimed server downtime and backup monitoring service that monitors websites every minute from multiple locations around the world and notify through email and/or SMS once the site is down.
Every hosting server has its own downtime which can last from a few minutes to long hours. Yesterday was one heck of a day for WebTips. Some of the Blogsome servers were down the whole day and unfortunately this blog too got offline. The result was the users suffered. Visitors who came from search engines and who could have been possible returning visitors returned a bad impression.
To every webmaster users are like God. Incase your website is down, you should contact the support desk of your web hosting company ASAP for an early restoration of services so that the users don’t suffer much. But for that you should monitor the status of your website round the clock which is manually not feasible. Hence monitoring through a service like Pingdom is highly recommended.
Ofcourse there are lots of downtime monitoring services available but Pingdom is one of the best of the lot. Sites like Alexa, Twitter, Last.fm are some of the top sites using Pingdom.
Is Pingdom offering its services for free?
Yes. Pingdom is offering its ‘limited’ services for free which is a great news specially for bloggers like us. Depending upon your requirements you may also sign up with Pingdom for its paid basic and advanced accounts to enjoy extra monitoring and notification features.
Features offered by Pingdom for Free Accounts
- Monitoring of 1 website
- Monitor website from around the world including countries like US, Canada, UK, Sweden, Netherlands
- Check resolution ranging from 1 minute to 60 minutes
- Notifications::
- Get notification via email (unlimited) and/or 20 SMSs during downtime
- Get notification(s) for a specified down-cycle (If this option is set, you will get further notifications apart from the initial notifier)
- Get notification when your site is up and running
- Reports:
- Uptime report
- Responsetime report
- Detailed log report which you may download as a CSV file
- Option to create a public report of your website
Anytime you may upgrade your account type from free to basic (5 checks + 20 SMS) or advanced (30 checks + 200 SMSs)
So why wait? Signup with Pingdom for free now!
