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CDNs can serve cached pages or friendly fallbacks and still return HTTP 200, even when your origin is failing. Learn why uptime is not the same as availability, how false positives happen behind Cloudflare/Fastly/Akamai, and how to fix it with a non-cached health endpoint.
A comprehensive, SEO-friendly guide explaining what a status page is, how status page software works, why uptime monitoring matters in 2026, and how to choose between hosted and self-hosted status pages. Includes examples, use cases, comparison tables, FAQ, and People Also Ask keyword sections.
Privacy refresh, a new status page guide, build hardening, and availability metrics polish shipped in Week 50.
Week 40 delivered a new status widget, easier notification testing, and multiple competitor UX improvements.
Should you host your own status page or use a dedicated SaaS like Atlassian Statuspage or HostedStatus.page? Let’s compare the pros, cons, and hidden costs.
I left /register unprotected, got 250+ bot signups, finished an invisible honeypot captcha (gocaptcha) and dropped fake signups to 0.
