Giveaway : Pingdom – Website Uptime Monitor

Pingdom is the best website uptime monitoring service you will ever find. With it you can have the status of your website checked in regular intervals and they can be as small as one minute. More importantly the checks are not from just one location, in fact they have seven servers in the United States, one in Singapore, one in Australia, one in India, two in England, one in Holland, and two in Sweden. All of them will be monitoring the uptime of your website every single minute.
Setting up your site in Pingdom is a simple 3 step process that offers variety of configuration options as you can see in the screenshots below..
As you can see from the screenshots you can be notified by EMail and/or SMS Text messages. In my experience so far, the email notifications work wonderfully and the basic plan comes with 20 SMS messages per month. Receiving text messages can be extremely useful when you don’t have immediate access to your email and this has proved to be quite beneficial to me in the past.
Once you have, had Pingdom running tests on your site for a while, you will see a plethora of useful and easy to read reports. Take for example the graph below which shows how fast DailyApps responds to you when you try to access it.

If you have a website or you are planning to have one soon, Pingdom is a must have for you. I’d say a must have tool for every webmaster.
The Giveaway
Well during the birthday celebrations of DailyApps we have 25 Basic Accounts for a year (Valued at 119.40$ each) of Pingdom to giveaway to you guys. All you have to do is follow the instructions below.
- Go to our signup page: https://www.pingdom.com/signup/
- Select service type Pingdom Basic.
- Select payment type Yearly (which is worth $119.40)
- Enter dailyapps1y into the promotional code field and press the “apply code” button. If there are any free accounts left on this code you will get a message that it is a valid code and you will see the price on the page change to $0.00.
- Fill in your account information below. (The cell phone is just there for SMS alerts.)
- Check the Pingdom ToS at the bottom.
- Press the “sign up now” button.
Please note that the promotional codes will get used up on first come first serve basis. So better hurry up now..




14 Comments, Comment or Ping
Luke L
Thank you! Got my free account now, and I almost don’t want to have to get an email from it.
Jul 26th, 2008
Evert Jan
Thanks for the giveaway! I got mine…
Jul 26th, 2008
Mike Ryan
Wow! 0-0
I didn’t even check this out when you first mentioned it. I. Want. This. Badly.
Jul 26th, 2008
Abhijeet from Jeet Blog
Thanks Karthik ! Got it !
Jul 26th, 2008
Manas
Got one ….
Thanks a lot !!!
Jul 26th, 2008
mantas
thanks! just signed up for it.
Jul 26th, 2008
DjFlush
Karthik you simply own man!
Pawnage
Jul 26th, 2008
V1
Wohooo! I was going to buy a account anyways, thanks allot
now i got one freee
Jul 26th, 2008
Ramkesh Renganathan
Thanks for the chance, Karthik.
Jul 27th, 2008
Austin
Looks like all accounts are taken… all 25 of ‘em. Getting a message “invalid code”.
Jul 27th, 2008
PaLoBo
Sniff SNiff… I didn’t get there in time… Thanks anyway for an excelente blog. Keep up the great work, it is much appreciated.
Cheers and Happy birthday dailyApps
P.
Jul 27th, 2008
Barbara Baker
Oh well, I tried…didn’t get it but congrats to those who got it!!!! That looks like something that will be very useful to all:)
Jul 27th, 2008
Anirudh
Hi,
I registered for the service out of curiosity. But don’t care two hoots about my website.
If anyone wants my account, please email me at anirudh (hat) anirudhsanjeev (dawt) org
Jul 28th, 2008
Karthik Kastury
Thank you guys, the giveaway is over.. I will be announcing the winners in a few hours from now..
Thanks for being a part of Dailyapps Birthday Bash!!
Jul 29th, 2008