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Ask HN: Suggest a platform for a status page (eg. like status.linode.com)
Hi,
I'm looking to build a status page for a webapp of mine ... something that looks and functions like http://status.linode.com.
(Obviously, this could be fulfilled by a simple blog or any number of solutions.)
The only reason I'm looking for a solution is because it has to be hosted outside of my own infrastructure. Hence if my webapp or my servers go down, the status page is still up.
Then I thought I'd just throw this question out there and see what people think.
Criteria:
o Quick and easy to setup and update.
o Looks decent. Brandable.
o Custom domain.
o Third party infrastructure. Preferably highly scalable. (Would like static page / Varnish-like performance)
o Cheap.
(Dammit, if it didn't need to be hosted outside, I could just add to an existing server for free)
Possibilities:
o Typepad (which is what status.linode.com seems to use)
o Wordpress at wordpress.com
o Drupal at Acquia Gardens
o Jekyll with Github pages (Can't find pricing just to post a private blog)
o Some dirt-cheap shared hosting somewhere (but having stopped using shared hosting for many years, I don't really want to return to this)
Thoughts, anyone?
- martey 15y agoYou could use Amazon S3's static page hosting - http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-on-amazon-s3.html http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-... Some cursory searching found one company using it as such - http://onemoredigit.com/post/3660651034/custom-domain-with-static-amazon-s3-websites http://onemoredigit.com/post/3660651034/custom-domain-with-s... . They seem to use JavaScript to pull reports of outages from their Twitter account.
- bengtan 15y agoInteresting. For a tiny blog, I'd be looking at about ~$1-2 per month hosting. Thanks for the tip.
- samarudge 15y agoI've actually used Tumblr for this quite a bit, I've set up a Nagios output to update the Tumblog (Via the Tumblr API) for automated alerts.