[ChrisAnn]

By adding to the requests to the status page. As commented below, we've slowed it right down!

I don't have a site on Heroku, but I clicked through anyway - it's on the top of Hacker News, so must be worth looking at.

[PakG1]

Hehe, but in all fairness, what matters in any infrastructure failure is information spread, not information uptime. :)