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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ok so from this thread we have so far:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://api-status.com/">http://api-status.com/</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://downrightnow.com/">http://downrightnow.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>and someone directed me to this site, which seems pretty good too:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://host-tracker.com/?sdm=1">http://host-tracker.com/?sdm=1</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(And as pointed out <a href="http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/">http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/</a> shows google.com as currently down for it [it’s not for anyone else I think] so I wouldn’t really trust it… :P)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> BINO<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pascal.charest@gmail.com [mailto:pascal.charest@gmail.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Pascal Charest<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> Brandon Galbraith<br><b>Cc:</b> Bino Gopal; outages-discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Outages-discussion] Idea to help with the S/N on outages...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Something akin to : <br clear=all></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://api-status.com/">http://api-status.com/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>--<br>Pascal Charest, <br>Cutting-edge technology consultant @ Les Laboratoires Phoenix<br><a href="http://www.labsphoenix.com" target="_blank">http://www.labsphoenix.com</a> </span><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Brandon Galbraith <<a href="mailto:brandon.galbraith@gmail.com">brandon.galbraith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>> I have a Pingdom account, and would be glad to add public services and<br>> make the reports generated public.<br>><br>> Has anyone thought of an outages-automated-alerts list? Where<br>> notifications are sent (emails/texts) when public services are marked<br>> as down by a monitoring service?<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I should note that Pingdom supports posting down/up alerts to Twitter.<br>Anyone have an outages twitter account setup yet everyone could follow<br>I could have an account post to?<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>--<br>Brandon Galbraith<br>US Voice: <a href="tel:630.492.0464">630.492.0464</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Outages-discussion mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Outages-discussion@outages.org">Outages-discussion@outages.org</a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages-discussion" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages-discussion</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>