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>>AlphaW+(OP)
Putting your status page on a separate domain for availability reasons: good

Not updating that status page when the core domain goes down: less good

>>dmatti+L3
You'd be surprised how often those pages are updated manually. By the person on call who has other things to take care of first.

>>troupo+Pu
Because a healthcheck ping every X seconds is too difficult to implement for a GitHub sized company? There they have it now. Useless status page...

>>Myster+NH
Because a ping does not have a consistent behaviour and sometimes will fail because of networking issues at the source. If you enable pingdom checks for many endpoints and all available regions, prepare for a some false positives every week for example.

At that point it's worse than what you already know from your browser - it may show the service is having issues when you can access it, or that the service is ok when you can't.