Been down for a couple hours for me.

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    3 days ago

    Servers could still be up and responding to pings, yet backend databases could be down.

    Or it could be a caching problem with the status service.

    It’s bad ways of handling your status page but it happens.

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      3 days ago

      It’s also a business decision. Many times companies will massage their verbiage and have a plan in place before they even change the status to “investigating” simply to appease when they have SLAs. It’s stupid, but that’s often the reason.

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        2 days ago

        It depends on the services, but in the end it’s pretty easy to spoof handshake packets to see if a service on a server is still running.

        nmap is a great example.