Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
by globular-toast on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:05AM
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Who monitors the monitors?
Agreed, though. A fake status page is worse than no status page. I don't mind if the status page states that it's manually updated every few hours as long as it's honest. But don't make it look like it's automated when it's not.
Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
by hedora on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:33AM
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Wtf is this disclaimer on Down Detector for? (Navigate to OVH page.). It sits in front of user comments, I think:
> Unable to display this content to due missing consent. By law, we are required to ask your consent to show the content that is normally displayed here.
Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
by Symbiote on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:16AM
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It's a Disqus widget. If you denied consent for third party tracking, they can't load it.
I've usually seen this with embedded videos rather than comments.
Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
by tweetle_beetle on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:39AM
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Thanks, can't belive it's taken me 8 years to learn about that.
Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
by joshspankit on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:00PM
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Would a blatantly false status page meet the criteria for false advertising?
My gut says yes.
At best you might be missing out on some SLA refunds, but at worst it could be disasterous for a business. I've been on the wrong side of a update-by-hand status system from a hosting provider before and it wasn't fun.