[street]

A properly configured $5 VPS can handle a massive amount of traffic if it's just serving a single static (cached) page.

But to follow up on your point: I hope the EB script that updates the pages automatically while doing maintenance will not wait for a response to its POST requests before actually letting EB perform the maintenance. Otherwise you create a crucial unwanted dependency on your status server.

[corobo]

Indeed a properly configured VPS can - What I mean is make sure it's properly configured before chucking a status page on it. The post didn't really go into the properly configured part.

[cyberferret]

I cannot attest to the 'properly configured' part. I simply used their Ubuntu Droplet 'out of the box' apart from installing MySQL on it. Would love it if you can point me at a guide or post on how to configure a Digital Ocean droplet for better availability and reliability.

[cyberferret]

Thanks for the observation, but currently there are no dependencies with those scripts. They are simply 'fire and forget' while EB gets on with the other tasks at hand.