I am sure your customer really appreciates you exploiting their unfortunate outage. This is really what I look for in a company that I depend on when my day is already going terrible.
> Luckily for DNSimple, they were smart enough to run their status page off of their own infrastructure<p>That wording... is it me, or does that not mean what they think it means?<p>I read that as "they were smart enough to run their status page on their own infrastructure" because of colloquial uses of the phrase "off of" (eg he jumped off of the dock).
> Secondary DNS Provider<p>You can do that anyway - just delegate the status subdomain as a new zone<p>> we're unable to add subdomains for existing customers of Fastly<p>Seems like a bad choice of CDN provider...<p>> your precious SPF slots<p>'slots'? You just add another `include` section - there is no number of slots. And even if there was, you don't want email being addressed from a fake looking domain.<p>The benefits of having a dedicated domain are far and few between. Particularly the reasons listed here are poor ones. It is far more beneficial to use a single trusted domain than to create a confusing mix of domains which look possibly fake.
Statuspage.io itself is hosted on Route53 exclusively. Guess what will happen when Route53 has a problem...<p>How about fixing your own shit before pointing fingers at others?