I built Gitae because I kept running into the same practical question: is the website actually down, or is the problem only on my side?
Most website checkers answer that question too narrowly. They tell you whether a URL returned a response, but they often miss the real reason behind the failure. A website can look “down” because of DNS, SSL, routing, hosting, firewall rules, blocked ports, local internet issues, VPN behavior, browser cache, or a temporary problem between networks. A simple up-or-down result is not enough when you need to understand what is actually broken.
Gitae is not just another website down checker
The goal of Gitae is deeper website and infrastructure diagnostics. Instead of checking only whether a page loads, it helps separate the possible failure layers: domain configuration, DNS records, SSL certificate status, network connectivity, open ports, reverse DNS, hosting information, CMS signals, and external reachability.
That matters because different failures require completely different actions. If DNS is wrong, restarting the application will not help. If the SSL certificate is expired, changing hosting will not fix the browser warning. If a port is closed, the website might be alive while the service you need is unreachable. If the issue exists only from your home network, the server may be perfectly healthy.
Why remote server-side checks are more reliable
One of the most important decisions behind Gitae is that the checks run from my own VDS servers in Moscow and Helsinki. This gives an external server-side view of the website instead of relying only on the local computer of the person checking it.
Local diagnostics can be misleading. Your ISP may have routing problems. Your DNS resolver may cache a stale record. A VPN can route traffic through a broken path. A browser extension can change behavior. A device firewall can block something. Even the operating system DNS cache can make a healthy website look broken. Remote checks reduce that noise and make the result closer to what other users or servers may see.
What Gitae checks today
The current version of Gitae includes a set of practical tools for website owners, developers, sysadmins, SEO specialists, and indie builders:
- Website check to see whether a URL responds from an external server.
- SSL check to inspect certificate validity and HTTPS problems.
- DNS check, nslookup, and dig to understand domain resolution.
- Reverse DNS and IP check to inspect server identity and IP data.
- Domain info and domain age for basic domain intelligence.
- Port check to test whether important services are reachable.
- Find your IP to quickly see the public IP address visible to the internet.
- Ping and traceroute to diagnose latency, packet loss, and routing paths.
- Hosting check and CMS detection to identify infrastructure and technology signals.
From SEO troubleshooting to uptime diagnostics
Website availability is not only a technical topic. For SEO, downtime can affect crawling, indexing, user experience, conversions, and trust. If Googlebot or real users cannot reliably access a site, the cost is not just an error message. It can become lost traffic, lost leads, lost revenue, and wasted marketing effort.
That is why a diagnostic tool should not stop at “online” or “offline.” It should help answer better questions. Is DNS resolving correctly? Is HTTPS valid? Is the server reachable from another country? Is the port open? Is the route broken? Is the domain configured correctly? Is the problem local, regional, or server-side?
Built first for real use, not monetization
At the moment, Gitae has no monetization. I built it first for myself because I needed a fast and reliable way to check websites from outside my own machine. The current focus is simple: make the tool useful, improve the diagnostics, and see whether it can grow through SEO and real user demand.
If the project reaches even modest traffic, I want to add automated website monitoring with instant messenger alerts. The idea is straightforward: when a website becomes unavailable, the owner should know quickly, not hours later after traffic and revenue have already been lost.
The core idea
Gitae exists to make website diagnostics clearer. A website problem is rarely just “up” or “down.” It is usually a chain of systems: DNS, SSL, routing, ports, hosting, application behavior, and user-side conditions. The faster you identify the broken layer, the faster you can fix the real problem.
That is the product I wanted for myself: a fast external diagnostics toolkit that helps answer one question with more confidence: is the website really down, or is it only broken from where I am?