My intuition is that it is. I didn't know github was really down, but had problem accessing it. Went to status.github.com and got the results, not really knowin

My intuition is that it is. I didn't know github was really down, but had problem accessing it. Went to status.github.com and got the results, not really knowing if the address existed or not (just guessed). These sites are often hosted away from the main service, and thus available even when problems occur.