Networks are the heart of internet and connected computers. Hence its monitoring became essential for managing the issues related with servers, websites and other applications in real-time. Network monitoring checks different factors affecting a network, like server outages, intrusions, addition of new hardware and software, changes in network configuration, bandwidth usage, downtime, system resource usages, changes in DNS settings and many others. There are softwares and web applications that could check websites and networks for issues and warn network administrator about any possible issues. We earlier shared a free website monitoring service from Pingdom and free applications that can monitor remote computers.

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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 .