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February 2022

Why Self-hosting Might not be a Good Choice for your Status Page

We all remember when Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram shut down in April of last year for a whole day. And while it was terrible for their company—it’s an educational moment for the rest of us to learn from. Facebook’s status page is self-hosted, and that puts their status pages at risk of the exact issue it’s designed to tell you about.