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Re:Tell HN: Don't put your status page on the same domain as... by m12m3kg on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:09AM (#27103465)
> If your status page returns a 502 at the same time that your app returns a 502, you might be in trouble. https://status.discord.com/ really should be on a different domain

Subdomain can be hosted on a different server. You don't need another domain to do that.

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Re:Tell HN: Don't put your status page on the same domain as... by sascha_sl on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:06AM (#27105552)
Nameserver outages happen.
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Re:Tell HN: Don't put your status page on the same domain as... by m12m3kg on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:04AM (#27191956)
No they don't. One domain can point to multiple name servers. Also, good name servers provide great uptime. If you are not using some no name company's name servers, but something like AWS route 53.
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