Other advantages of Pingdom which aren't easy to emulate: * Pingdom measures response time and availability from multiple points on the internet, which is very

Other advantages of Pingdom which aren't easy to emulate: * Pingdom measures response time and availability from multiple points on the internet, which is very useful for working out if there are issues with your connection. * Pingdom will alert you of downtime even in the case that there's a catastrophic failure of all your monitoring. Both of these things are useful even if you're a big company with a lot of internal monitoring.