Hightek Hosting has been utilising Pingdom’s monitoring services for quite some time for monitoring our server status, uptime and downtime.
Pingdom has recently announced some exiciting news!
They are offering Free Website Monitoring service! No, it’s not a free trial…it’s a completely FREE ACCOUNT!
Now you too can use the same monitoring service Hightek Hosting use on a day-to-day basis.
Quick facts about Pingdom
Just in case you haven’t heard of it, Pingdom is a service that monitors websites and servers from the Internet and alerts you if there is a problem. It acts like a watchdog, making sure that your website is up and running 24/7.
- You handle all your settings from an online control panel. No need to install anything.
- Tests can be performed as often as every minute.
- Tests are performed from multiple locations on the Internet.
- You can get error alerts via both email and SMS.
- You get access to reports on downtime and response time.
- When an error is detected, Pingdom performs additional tests for you, helping you troubleshoot.
There is much more to the service than the above. For those interested in learning more, have a look at the Pingdom feature tour.
With this FREE monitoring from Pingdom, they are also throwing in 20 FREE SMS messages to notify you via your mobile if your site goes offline!
They also send email advisory notices, so you’re assured communications when your sites having issues.
For more information on this, view Pingdom’s Blog here: http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/07/01/pingdom-adds-free-website-monitoring/
