I've been a Pingdom customer for several years, with no plan to leave. Here's my perspective: 1. Our primary use of Pingdom is to show prospective clients ou

I've been a Pingdom customer for several years, with no plan to leave. Here's my perspective: 1. Our primary use of Pingdom is to show prospective clients our app uptime, as validated by a 3rd party. So Pingdom's main value for us is in marketing. 2. Because Pingdom has years of our data, we are really locked in. 3. Sub-minute monitoring is not appealing, I don't want that much load on my servers from monitoring. 4. The name Verelo does not convey what your service does. 5. I think Pingdom's $10/month price point is about right for our use-case. We'd probably drop it if they raised prices very much. Hope this helps, good luck with your venture!