

It isn't like statuspage.io is not awesome and cheap.


Looks Like Facebook Is Down That is funny as hell.Best part is we can post updates to any outage / issue and it gets mailed to anyone who subscribed. We setup a statuspage.io account a year back or so and push some aggregated metrics to indicate current service/system status. Nothing slays me more than individual users wanting status updates on global issues.It's just ironic that I posted this and got the API issues email within minutes. iOS App / API / explorer issues? I signed up for reports from statuspage.io which tends to spam me with network updates, but I like to see that that they are really working on it from hour to hour so I'm happy to get the spam.For 99.999% of companies, buying a SaaS like statuspage.io is sufficient to make sure your downtime doesn't take down your status page provider. AWS is blessed with an interesting problem: using AWS is widespread enough that it would be hard for them to guarantee a third-party hosting their status page did not depend on them in some way. AWS Re:Liability - The Status Page Status That still means the back-up method requires AWS services to be up.Alternate to Health Dashboard like StatusPage.io Shows service health, incident updates under categories like statuspage.io does? - Source: Reddit / 8 months ago.
