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		count on April 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Digital Ocean needs to start showing outages on th... Status needs to be hosted not on the infrastructure being reported on. If the issue is an API endpoint outage, having an API endpoint for status reporting is...counterproductive :)

neom on April 7, 2014 [–]

If there was an API outage we would report it on our status page, the blog post is about the health of individual physical nodes on our network that bring down clusters of VMs. If there was an API endpoint outage we'd post it to the status page. :)

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