status page

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status page hosting

SHOW HN2016

248points
43comments
#95of 2,264 in 2016
Top 5%of 2016 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

2 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.18.

Performance: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Clever free alternative to hosted status pages

    From 2 comments
    • Nice "hack". I'm using statuspage.io for the notification side of things but can see why this is a very decent free alternative.
      iqonik on HN
    • But seriously - statuspage.io is amazing for this and super cheap.
      javery on HN

Objections

  • GitHub has frequent outages, so it may not suit a status page

    From 4 comments
    • Github recently is more offline than my Servers. Not sure if that would really help.
      herbst on HN
    • Personally I prefer a service like http://status.io - it's one less thing I need to maintain/etc. Not to mention GitHub has had more than its fair share of outages.
      donnfelker on HN
    • Anyway, it's a clever idea but GitHub itself suffers a lot of outages. Is this a good idea?
      jbrooksuk on HN
    • Host my status page on a site that is down about half the time? Hah
      capote on HN
  • Static S3 updates are not atomic, so pages can be inconsistent

    From 2 comments
    • There is one thing. Updates to S3 files are not atomic. That is, if you update a file, you may still get an old version of it for a time. Same with deletes. The only atomic…
      IgorPartola on HN
    • I do mean atomic, as a concept that includes durability and consistency. From Wikipedia: > An atomic transaction is an indivisible and irreducible series of database operations…
      IgorPartola on HN

Requests

  • Open source status page tool that monitors endpoints automatically

    From 1 comment
    • Are there any decent open source status page systems that do the monitoring for you? I'm just looking for a basic ping or JSON response to automatically update the page for me.…
      alexcroox on HN

Questions

  • How does it differ from Cachet and statuspage.io

    From 1 comment
    • Wow... This looks very similar to Cachet [1]. Did you take inspiration from it? [1] https://cachethq.io
      jbrooksuk on HN

Alternatives named

  • Cachet

    From 2 comments
    • Wow... This looks very similar to Cachet [1]. Did you take inspiration from it? [1] https://cachethq.io
      jbrooksuk on HN
    • If you install Cachet [1] you can install Cachet Monitor [2] which can monitor URLs for you! [1] https://cachethq.io [2] https://github.com/castawaylabs/cachet-monitor
      jbrooksuk on HN
  • statuspage.io

    From 2 comments
    • But seriously - statuspage.io is amazing for this and super cheap.
      javery on HN
    • StatusPage.io is nice but they charge $99/mo for custom CSS and $399/mo for custom HTML. I don't see that as being cheap.
      jakejohnson on HN
  • status.io

    From 2 comments
    • Personally I prefer a service like http://status.io - it's one less thing I need to maintain/etc. Not to mention GitHub has had more than its fair share of outages.
      donnfelker on HN
    • Not specifically. If you take a look at statuspage.io [1], status.io [2] or cachet [3] they look more or less the same. [1] https://www.statuspage.io/ [2] https://status.io/ [3]…
      jayfk on HN

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