Status pages are a valuable asset for any website or SaaS business – especially today when outages and downtime have never been more common and uptime expectations have never been higher. Whether your site is down or all systems are perfectly operational, hosted status pages provide external users and internal stakeholders with a single source of truth regarding uptime performance. When done well, status pages are elegant and custom-branded.

Websites are an amenity packaged as a utility. If your site isn’t reliable and fast, users have options to replace it and they probably will. How you build your site and how you maintain it impacts your site’s success. Regardless of whether you’re launching your website, relaunching, or even rebranding, you don’t have to break the wheel to build a solid website that can withstand the traffic and growth of your enterprise.

Early Twitter was an adventure. Every day was an open question: would you be able to log in or did the next big story crash the platform? It was taking off and crashing and flying and crashing again. All in real time. It was an exciting time for the internet, and while everything has changed since then it got us thinking: why did we used to tolerate stuff just not working? And why do we still tolerate stuff not working?