Why would it make sense to have a "Download from Github" button instead of a "View me on GitHub" button or something?<p>It of cause makes sense for closed source software, but being open source it invites in people who at the very least want to read the `README.md`, star the repo and most likely want to have a look at the source code.<p>I kind of panicked when the download button actually downloaded - I was like "hey stop! wait a sec! I want to check out the code first" - maybe it's just me ;)
It does look good, but how well does it hold up under load? When the main service goes down the status page will get a huge load spike, and it's probably not hosted on your best hardware.<p>The demo page doesn't look cachable: a "Cache-Control: no-cache" header, no ETag or Last-Modified headers. It's obvious that they don't want stale pages in a cache, but why not take advantage of a simple Last-Modified to remove most traffic from people refreshing every few seconds?
I really like the look and feel of this project.<p>It's great to see Stoke-on-Trent represented in the startup arena.<p>As I'm really keen to see more local jobs and affluence, my comment would be, there's nothing about how the project will be sustained financially, no payment plans or premium support.<p>Look forward to seeing more about this at Staffs Web Meetup.
i have been testing this tool for a few weeks now and we are deploying it in production now. the biggest problem that remains for us is the lack of integration with Twitter (on which we still need to do manual updates) and lack of caching which makes the application not as available as it could.<p>that said it's pretty much the <i>only</i> free alternative out there, so it's a welcome and refreshing change. props up to the devs too that have been <i>very</i> fast and responsive on github, fixing issues, bugs and suggestions on the same day sometimes. a rare breed.
Seems interesting but I wonder how does it checks the various part of the application for its availability.<p>Documentation is still draft.<p>Does anyone have some more detail about the required steps to integrate the checks?
I'm curious about how large companies manage their status pages. Are they running dedicated servers, internet access lines and DNS etc... for only indicating service status? What happens if status pages go down. Is there a status page of status page?
Looks really nice. Curious about the license terms and the change from MIT to "Easier licensing terms"[0] ... What does the change mean in practice and why was it changed from MIT?<p>[0]<a href="https://github.com/cachethq/Cachet/commit/5043a86b80080e92ae718d657a33b66520ad84a0#diff-9879d6db96fd29134fc802214163b95a" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cachethq/Cachet/commit/5043a86b80080e92ae...</a>
One remark to the demo. When you click a circle, a popup shows but its position is outside browser window in my android's chrome. Otherwise, pretty neat!