I have been a customer of Pindom’s for over a year now so I thought it would be nice to write a short review on them. I signed up with Pingdom during a special where they gave everyone a year of monitoring for free and I just renewed my subscription a few months ago.

One of the great things about this company is their great interface. It seems that they put a lot of time and thought into the appearance.

Setting up your checks is a very quick and painless process and you can have different checks notify different people via email or sms.

Pingdom really separates itself from the competition in its’ reporting features. Along with standard uptime reports they also generate latency reports which is allows you to monitor your site load time.

As standard with most monitoring solutions Pingdom also offers public reports.

Things I’d like to see:
-Phone Alerts
-More Check Types (FTP, NNTP, MySQL, PgSQL, Oracle, simple port checks aren’t enough)
-Monitoring from specific locations only (I should be able to chose dallas only if I want)
-More monitoring locations (I’d like to see some pollers in Asia)

Conclusion
Overall I have to say Pingdom is one of the best monitoring solutions I have ever used especially for its price which starts at $99/yr. This solution is also one of the most accurate solutions I have ever used and I have yet to get a false positive which I routinely received with other solutions.