Website Monitoring Services play a vital role from a webmasters point, because these tool/services help monitor if your website is down for some reason in the background.So that you can take necessary steps to correct the issue on the server and have minimal downtime.

Pingdom a Website/Server Monitoring Service helps keep track of website uptime/downtime from your desktop using their Pingdom Desktop Notifier, which runs in the background and notifies you if your website is down.Users can monitor one website from their desktop using the Basic Account which also includes 20 SMS alerts.

If you have a iPhone you can also download their iPhone Pingdom App for alerts on your Phone.

Pingdom Desktop Notifier is compatible with Windows XP/Vista/7.

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