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I feel like there should be place to report infrastructure suppliers with misleading status pages, some kind of crowdsourced database. Without this information,
by tweetle_beetle 6y ago
I feel like there should be place to report infrastructure suppliers with misleading status pages, some kind of crowdsourced database. Without this information, you only find out that they are misleading when something goes very wrong.
At best you might be missing out on some SLA refunds, but at worst it could be disasterous for a business. I've been on the wrong side of a update-by-hand status system from a hosting provider before and it wasn't fun.
- vntok 6y agohttps://downdetector.fr/ https://downdetector.fr/
- tweetle_beetle 6y agoThanks, can't belive it's taken me 8 years to learn about that.
- hedora 6y agoWtf is this disclaimer on Down Detector for? (Navigate to OVH page.). It sits in front of user comments, I think: > Unable to display this content to due missing consent. By law, we are required to ask your consent to show the content that is normally displayed here.
- Symbiote 6y agoIt's a Disqus widget. If you denied consent for third party tracking, they can't load it. I've usually seen this with embedded videos rather than comments.
- globular-toast 6y agoWho monitors the monitors? Agreed, though. A fake status page is worse than no status page. I don't mind if the status page states that it's manually updated every few hours as long as it's honest. But don't make it look like it's automated when it's not.
- joshspankit 6y agoWould a blatantly false status page meet the criteria for false advertising? My gut says yes.