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Re:Slack is down by snoman on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @02:32PM (#16109072)
Most of the time these status pages sit on, and store data in, the same infrastructure as the things it's supposed to be reporting on.
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Re:Slack is down by softawre on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:42PM (#16110872)
Do they really? Amazon did that one time but that was stupid of them. Most software companies use an external service (like statuspage.io) to host their status page.
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