A new offer with heavily discounted SMS alerts aims to provide affordable uptime monitoring to web hosting and e-commerce companies.

As of November 6, Pingdom (www.pingdom.com) has added a new uptime monitoring package. The new, more powerful package is called Pingdom Business, while he revious package offered by Pingdom has been renamed to Pingdom Basic.

Pingdom Business is meant to be an ideal solution for companies with the need to monitor uptime for a large number of websites, servers or services, and want to receive MS alerts to multiple contacts.

Good examples would be web hosting and e-commerce companies and other similar businesses that offer services online. Pingdom Business includes the following:

1. 200 SMS included when you sign up.
2. Heavy discount on SMS alerts.
3. 30 checks included. Each check can monitor a server, website or service.

On top of that, this package will contain an exclusive series of professional monitoring tools and advanced features from Pingdom that will not be available in the Pingdom Basic package.

“We have noticed an increasing demand for a package along these lines,” says Sam Nurmi, CEO of Pingdom. “Many companies, especially within web hosting, have a significant number of servers connected to the internet, and we want to make it easy for them to monitor every server and every service in a reliable and affordable manner.”

Pingdom is a completely web-based service providing a global network of servers that
monitor the uptime and response time of websites, servers and services online. The price for Pingdom Basic is $9.95 per month, while the price for Pingdom Business is $39.95 per month.

About Pingdom:
Pingdom is an uptime monitoring service with a global approach, monitoring websites and servers from multiple locations across the world to ensure the best reliability and accuracy possible. The company has customers in 127 countries, ranging from small one-man businesses to large, international corporations. Find out more at www.pingdom.com.