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by julianeon 2195 days ago
Seems pretty dumb to host a status page in a way that it could go down, when it should be a static page that is trivially hosted on CDN's worldwide.
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You can’t cache it for that long though.

A better approach is to have it hosted on a different cloud platform. If you really care, you’ll set it up on a different domain and nameserver as well with a long lived redirect (cached on CDNs) from the usual status.example.com or example.com/status.

Thanks; you're right - the caching would be a problem, so your solution makes more sense.
Over confident in their own Cloud

"Our cloud can never go completely down We are IBM, we have Watson..."

Their status page also seems integrated into their internal support ticketing system. It's not a traditional status page. They wanted to maintain a consistent garbage interface to keep it inline with the rest of their administrative service.