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A status page that is down at the same time as the real website is not a good status page...

nayuki 3y ago
Yeah. There was someone a few years ago who said something like, "If your website doesn't have a status page, it does have one on Twitter". Wish I could find the quote source.
- rjmunro 3y ago
  They have a twitter account for status updates, and that's not been updated since September: https://twitter.com/stackstatus https://twitter.com/stackstatus
  - jagged-chisel 3y ago
    I believe the implication is that the rest of the world will complain about your service's status on Twitter.
    - nayuki 3y ago
      Sadly, it's now a matter of time before Twitter itself goes down. (Due to running out of money, staff getting fired, mismanagement, etc.)
      - curtisblaine 3y ago
        It's been a matter of time for a long time.
digitallyfree 3y ago
Likely it's hosted on the same infrastructure. The general recommendation is to host the status page on different provider so it's more likely to stay up.
sigwinch28 3y ago
The pinned tweet for @StackStatus starts "With our recent status page improvements". https://twitter.com/StackStatus/status/1575844926884962305?s=20 https://twitter.com/StackStatus/status/1575844926884962305?s... The old status page https://stackstatus.tumblr.com https://stackstatus.tumblr.com is up, but not updated.
brookst 3y ago
The medium is the message.
belter 3y ago
Maybe the Status page is down and the site is up? :-)
- PaulHoule 3y ago
  I was trying to use SO for the first time in months (got a really freaky problem with jestjs) and it was down.
255 3y ago
It successfully tells me that the website is down
underlines 3y ago
It makes perfect sense: Create a static status page on yourserver.com/status.html and write: If you can't read this, it means the status of yourserver.com is: DOWN
- deleted 3y ago
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- TeMPOraL 3y ago
  DNS should have a mechanism for designating failover IPs, so you could e.g. host a static HTML saying "it's down" on some CDN as far as possible topologically from the rest of your network, so it displays when your status page is down too. However, status pages are first and foremost marketing tools, so I wouldn't expect anyone setting such mechanism up.
  - marcosdumay 3y ago
    You know, there's a proposal of treating HTTP names the same way SMTP works. That proposal includes adding low-priority servers that should be used only when the high priority fails. All the mainstream browsers have already said they won't ever implement it.
    - yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
      I suppose that gets filed next to "browsers should really let us use SRV records to point at websites":\
      - marcosdumay 3y ago
        SRV records are the thing I was talking about.
        yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
        Oh, neat! Thanks for pointing that out; I somehow got this far in life without realizing that SRV records have priority and weight fields (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record has a decent summary) - I only knew that they let you specify a port, which would already be a huge advantage. Darn, now I'm even more annoyed that browsers don't handle them:(

Yeah. There was someone a few years ago who said something like, "If your website doesn't have a status page, it does have one on Twitter". Wish I could find the quote source.

rjmunro 3y ago
They have a twitter account for status updates, and that's not been updated since September: https://twitter.com/stackstatus https://twitter.com/stackstatus
- jagged-chisel 3y ago
  I believe the implication is that the rest of the world will complain about your service's status on Twitter.
  - nayuki 3y ago
    Sadly, it's now a matter of time before Twitter itself goes down. (Due to running out of money, staff getting fired, mismanagement, etc.)
    - curtisblaine 3y ago
      It's been a matter of time for a long time.

digitallyfree 3y ago

Likely it's hosted on the same infrastructure. The general recommendation is to host the status page on different provider so it's more likely to stay up.

sigwinch28 3y ago

The pinned tweet for @StackStatus starts "With our recent status page improvements". https://twitter.com/StackStatus/status/1575844926884962305?s=20 https://twitter.com/StackStatus/status/1575844926884962305?s... The old status page https://stackstatus.tumblr.com https://stackstatus.tumblr.com is up, but not updated.

brookst 3y ago

The medium is the message.

belter 3y ago

Maybe the Status page is down and the site is up? :-)

PaulHoule 3y ago
I was trying to use SO for the first time in months (got a really freaky problem with jestjs) and it was down.

255 3y ago

It successfully tells me that the website is down

underlines 3y ago

It makes perfect sense: Create a static status page on yourserver.com/status.html and write: If you can't read this, it means the status of yourserver.com is: DOWN

deleted 3y ago
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TeMPOraL 3y ago
DNS should have a mechanism for designating failover IPs, so you could e.g. host a static HTML saying "it's down" on some CDN as far as possible topologically from the rest of your network, so it displays when your status page is down too. However, status pages are first and foremost marketing tools, so I wouldn't expect anyone setting such mechanism up.
- marcosdumay 3y ago
  You know, there's a proposal of treating HTTP names the same way SMTP works. That proposal includes adding low-priority servers that should be used only when the high priority fails. All the mainstream browsers have already said they won't ever implement it.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
    I suppose that gets filed next to "browsers should really let us use SRV records to point at websites":\
    - marcosdumay 3y ago
      SRV records are the thing I was talking about.
      - yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
        Oh, neat! Thanks for pointing that out; I somehow got this far in life without realizing that SRV records have priority and weight fields (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record has a decent summary) - I only knew that they let you specify a port, which would already be a huge advantage. Darn, now I'm even more annoyed that browsers don't handle them:(