How are status pages for major CDNs and major backbone providers designed to be up even though the provider is down?

Question

How are status pages for major CDNs and major backbone providers designed to be up even though the provider is down?

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Answer 1

I can answer this as it’s my job. I manage a large CIRT (Critical Incident Response Team) who provides critical incident services to over 45 companies, I believe its the largest CIRT in the western world at least.

I see from a lot of your comments that you are looking at internal hosting solutions, **dont**, look at the already established industry tools in place, consider something like [statuspage](https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage) (and also take a look at ops genie, its magnificent).