[Outages-discussion] Idea to help with the S/N on outages...

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bino Gopal" <Bino.Gopal at citrix.com>

> Ok so from this thread we have so far:
> 
> http://api-status.com/
> 
> http://downrightnow.com/
> 
> and someone directed me to this site, which seems pretty good too:
> 
> http://host-tracker.com/?sdm=1
> 
> (And as pointed out http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ shows
> google.com as currently down for it [it’s not for anyone else I think]
> so I wouldn’t really trust it… :P)
> 
> So the first thing anyone should do if something is down is to check
> any/all of these sites first before mailing the list. And with as many
> people that have 3G even if your personal connection is down (or just
> having issues) this will let you isolate that rather quickly…
> 
> Can we put links to these sites somewhere in the outages home page
> and/or FAQ for new users? And any other suggestions on making things
> easier/better for people to check themselves first are welcome in this
> thread…thanks guys!

I'll be happy to add these links to ... the Outages Dashboard:

http://www.outages.org/index.php/Dashboard

but the fact that there's already a place to put them means they won't be 
quite as useful as I suspect everyone hopes.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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