[acruns]

I guess if their DR firedrill assumed their failover router hosting the status page could never go down it would pass, but come on IBM.

[detaro]

Seems a common mistake. If I remember right, AWS stumbled over their status page depending on S3 a few years back

[mbreese]

I view this as growing pains that everyone has to learn the hard way. The bigger question is will they learn the lesson and how will they fix this for the next time?

(Because there is always a next time)