[po]

ok, that makes sense but you'd still at least have: if the site is down due to BGP then so is the status page that is on the same domain.

I guess I'm just calling out the people who are making fun of them for having their status page dependent on the same hardware it's monitoring when it's not clear that's the case just because they are both down?

I would suppose if it's a different TLD domain, then it would be more likely to conclude that.

[peterwwillis]

A status page should be a static site hosted on multiple providers in multiple regions with multiple nameservers. So, Amazon S3 hosted in 2 regions, Azure Storage hosted in 2 different regions, 2 different nameserver providers in 2 different countries using two different backend colo providers. Costs probably <$150/year and that will survive BGP outages, backhaul link outages, hosting provider outages, DNS outages.

I'm not going to make fun of them for their status page being down, but it certainly doesn't reflect well on the brand/products.