Pingdom hits 100k checks per hour, allows Allen to sleep

Pingdom has announced this morning that they have hit the 100,000 checks per hour mark. We originally covered Pingdom back in December and thought they were doing a great job. They released a study earlier this year showing the big blogs and what their server environments look like.

Their customer base includes Skype, Nokia, AdBrite, and CenterNetworks. As of December 2006, the company had customers in 126 countries.

“Uptime monitoring companies in general provide a valuable service that helps their customers stay aware of any site issues,” says Sam Nurmi, founder and CEO of Pingdom. “However, costs for detailed monitoring are often prohibitive, so we’ve done our best to make it affordable to set up a large number of individual checks. With more checks at their disposal, customers can monitor every aspect of their infrastructure. The response we have received is that this is really helping them provide a better service.”

I like Pingdom because it is easy-to-use, has sms/text messaging for outage notifications and helps me to sleep/travel without wondering whether my network of sites are up and running. There are lots of players in this market… I chose Pingdom because their pricing is good and their customer service is very responsive.