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Enjoy!!",{"problem":47,"audience":53,"pricing":53,"motivation":54,"time_to_build":53,"stack":58,"openness":71,"stage":71,"team_size":71},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"Downdetector went down during the Cloudflare outage, so there was no independent way to check it","maker",[51],{"id":52},"post",null,{"value":55,"source":49,"evidence":56},"Built a tool to check Downdetector after it went down in the Cloudflare outage",[57],{"id":52},[59,67],{"value":60,"source":61,"evidence":62},"Cloudflare for DNS","commenter",[63],{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"45979075","josteink","If my checks are correct, this site uses Cloudflare for DNS and AWS for hosting. So if any of the things you want to know is down is down, chances are this site will be too ;)",{"value":68,"source":61,"evidence":69},"AWS for hosting",[70],{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"unknown",{"praise":73,"objections":96,"requests":104,"questions":120,"alternatives":134},[74,89],{"value":75,"source":61,"evidence":76},"Funny recursive idea, a good laugh",[77,81,85],{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},"45978547","mylons","This is GOLD Jerry, Gold. but who detects the down detector detecting the down detector detecting the down detector",{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"45976521","ulf-77723","Nice! Who doesn’t like a good recursion? Fingers crossed that the down detector for down detector won’t be down, when down detector might be down",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"45979692","mhb","Three down detectors walk into a bar. The bartender asks them if they're all up. The first says \"I don't know\". The second says \"I don't know\". The third says \"Yes\".",{"value":90,"source":61,"evidence":91},"Looks nice",[92],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"45979998","dapoyo","I had this same idea when I got the \"Unblock challenges.cloudflare.com\" error while trying to access downdetector, lol! It looks really nice, good job!",[97],{"value":98,"source":61,"evidence":99},"Downdetector was not fully down; the Cloudflare verification step was the problem, so the check may mislead",[100],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"45983143","_nickwhite","I think an important caveat here is that down detector was not actually down, the cloudflare human verification component was (AFAIK). I wonder if this downdetector down detector…",[105],{"value":106,"source":61,"evidence":107},"Build a checker for the down detector checker, and so on",[108,112,116],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"45987637","iopjgalejandro","This is the kind of recursive absurdity I come to HN for. So, naturally, the feature request is: who watches the watchmen? We need downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com next.",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"45977949","makach","Slippery slope- just matter of time before someone makes a downdetector for the downdetector for downdetector. Ad nauseum.",{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"45976590","gblargg","Would it be a good idea to have a second instance of this watching the first one? \u002Fs",[121,128],{"value":122,"source":61,"evidence":123},"How does it detect whether a site is up?",[124],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"45978999","Retr0id","How does it detect up-ness? Downdetector was indeed down during the cf outage, but I think the index page was still returning 200 (although I didn't check). Running a headless…",{"value":129,"source":61,"evidence":130},"Is it hosted on Cloudflare?",[131],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":129},"45976668","ricq",[135,142,149,156,163],{"value":136,"source":61,"evidence":137},"isdowndetectordown.com",[138],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"45981018","zoidb","there is also https:\u002F\u002Fisdowndetectordown.com\u002F",{"value":143,"source":61,"evidence":144},"isisitdowndown.com",[145],{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"45977080","theturtlemoves","isisitdowndown.com is still free",{"value":150,"source":61,"evidence":151},"updog.ai by Datadog",[152],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"45978181","jakub_g","Semi-related: Datadog recently created https:\u002F\u002Fupdog.ai",{"value":157,"source":61,"evidence":158},"Downdetector's own status page for Downdetector",[159],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"45986161","SeanAnderson","https:\u002F\u002Fdowndetector.com\u002Fstatus\u002Fdowndetector 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