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About Pingdom GIGRIB

Pingdom GIGRIB is a unique website monitoring service, the first of its kind, measuring the uptime of websites with the help of a distributed network of clients. The GIGRIB users themselves make up the GIGRIB monitoring network, so the more users that join, the more websites can be monitored.

All the collected uptime information for all the websites monitored by Pingdom GIGRIB is publicly available here on the Pingdom GIGRIB website.

We have two main goals with Pingdom GIGRIB

1. We want to give everyone the possibility to monitor the uptime of their websites in a simple and reliable way for free.
2. With enough users, GIGRIB will be able to provide uptime statistics for all the web hosting companies and Internet service providers in the world.

Why use Pingdom GIGRIB?

• It is free.
• It is risk-free (no spyware or adware).
• It checks your website as often as once a minute.
• It checks from multiple locations.
• You can add up to 10 websites.
• You help contribute to a project that will make Internet uptime statistics freely available to the general public.

What is uptime?

Uptime is the time a website is available and accessible on the Internet. It should be 100%, so the website can be accessed all the time, but we all know that the internet is not always a reliable place.

That is why Pingdom created GIGRIB.