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by TrueGeek 1205 days ago
> Status pages get updated manually

This bugs me to no end. I don't want to name names but I had a devops service that was returning an odd error implying I was doing something wrong. Status page said everything was good. After several hours I emailed to be told it was actually down, they were aware, and were working on it. It eventually gets fixed, they email back, and all is well. The status page never did show any downtime.

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Unless the status page show response times and is automatically updated when stuff stops working, assume that the status page is used as a marketing page. Companies who have nothing to hide run proper status pages, the rest that want to appear proper run marketing status pages that takes 30-60 minutes to even be updated in the first place.