Why DNSimple Has a Dedicated Status Page Domain

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.

This is more than ironic: statuspage.io was affected last week by the Amazon DNS outage! That doesn't seem to get a mention.

&gt; 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 &quot;they were smart enough to run their status page on their own infrastructure&quot; because of colloquial uses of the phrase &quot;off of&quot; (eg he jumped off of the dock).

Car Salesman: &quot;Sorry to see you&#x27;ve crashed your car...while you&#x27;re waiting for the ambulance, let me tell you about Volvo....&quot;

&gt; Secondary DNS Provider<p>You can do that anyway - just delegate the status subdomain as a new zone<p>&gt; we&#x27;re unable to add subdomains for existing customers of Fastly<p>Seems like a bad choice of CDN provider...<p>&gt; your precious SPF slots<p>&#x27;slots&#x27;? You just add another `include` section - there is no number of slots. And even if there was, you don&#x27;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?

Oh, right. I was wondering what this was and then realised my sites are down. Thanks for telling me, I guess... rather unconventional way. :)