Having websites up all the time is a necessity for every webmaster and Blogger.But there are chances of heavy traffic ,hack attacks or server issues that makes websites prone to downtimes .Pingdom is a service that monitors a couple of websites in an account against above mentioned issues and let the owners know about any such events through SMS ,Email and other means . This is a very useful service as each hour or minute offline time affects our online business ,reputation and income . Currently Pingdom offers two kind of monitoring services basic and business . Basic is priced at 9.99 $ pm and its good for motoring home and small business websites . Surprisingly ,now they have introduced a Pingdom free standard plan that lets the users to monitor one website completely free with all basic benefits of a payed plan.
How Pingdom works :
The above image illustrates the concept of Pingdom website uptime monitoring service . It will check the website at multiple intervals , and in case of any issue , it will collect the information from another server located at other part of the world . Now a positive result is reported to the user via SMS and email .
How to get Pingdom account free :
Go to this page and sign up with you email address and phone number .Pingdom will then sent the account and other details to the submitted email address . Free account can only monitor one website with one check and 20 SMS messages . Only requirement from Pingdom is to keep the account active and to open them at least one time in 90 days . Free users can further purchase more Pingdom SMS credits if required .
Greater than dealing with decreased cash as a result of web site downtime.