[petercooper]

One of the many status page/"is it down" services could probably get some good PR out of having a GitHub status page that's based upon live results from several geographical locations..

[rozenmd]

Oh hey, I've got one right here: https://github.onlineornot.com/

Based out of Virginia, USA for the initial check, followed by a random sample of 19 locations around the world to confirm it's actually down.