Pingdom Now Offers Free Website Monitoring

Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 1, 2009 9:31 AM / 9 Comments

Over the last few years, Pingdom has established itself as a well-regarded uptime monitoring service, but until now, its services were only available to paying customers. Today, however, Pingdom launched a free version of its service. The free service offers all the features of Pingdom's paid accounts, though users are limited to monitoring just one website or server. This free account also comes with up to 20 SMS alerts per months, which is a nice perk, given that you probably want to know that your site or server is down as soon as possible.

Pingdom gives users a large number of options. You can, for example, choose to have it ping your server anywhere between once per minute or once per hour. Pingdom is also flexible enough to be able to ping specific ports on your server and also check the state of your SMPT, POP3, or IMAP email server - though with the free account, you can obviously only choose one of these.

In addition to its free service, Pingdom also offers a basic account for $9.95 per month, which allows users to monitor up to 5 sites. The company also offers a business account for $39.95 per month, which can check up to 30 sites. The basic account also comes with 20 free SMS alerts, while business account users can receive up to 200 alerts by text message.

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Posted by: Kelli Piperata | July 1, 2009 7:08 PM

Great!!!
It is very useful to us.... Pingdom Get a free account.
If you want to monitor multiple web pages or set up a set of more advanced server checks, then you can of course still use our other paid account types: Pingdom Basic and Pingdom Business.

Posted by: Ricky | July 1, 2009 10:52 PM

We've been using Pingdom to monitor uptime for Relenta for a while and I highly recommend it. Free is good, of course, but even their paying plans offer substantially more value than ridiculously over-priced competitors.

Long story short: great company, fantastic service.

Posted by: Dmitri Eroshenko | July 2, 2009 4:10 AM

Waw thats great news and Pingdom services its really Fantastic!!

Posted by: OmniMD | July 2, 2009 4:24 AM

I prefer AlertFox for its (free and paid) transaction monitoring features.

For basic, free monitoring, mon.itor.us is the best.

Posted by: Tripit | July 3, 2009 12:12 AM

I've not tried Pingdom, however, I've extensively tested three good website monitoring services - Wormly, Site24x7 and Pingability - the results of which you can find here:

http://opinionroad.com/2009/07/12/website-monitoring-services/

Feedback about the article is very welcome.

Posted by: Justin Moss | July 11, 2009 10:17 PM