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by XCSme 1380 days ago
> that'd be pretty pointless, you already know it's down

How would I know? What if my website doesn't have any monitoring and I use a payment system, shouldn't I automatically be notified when that payment system is down? What if it's down for a week? I think service-providing companies should always announce outages and even suspected outages.