Status pages
During an outage your support inbox fills up with the same question. A status page answers it once, publicly, with data your monitors already collect - live component status and 90 days of uptime history, at serverinspector.com/status/your-name.
Each component on the page is one of your monitors, so the status shown is the result of the same checks that page your on-call engineer. There is nothing to update manually and nothing to keep in sync.
The page is served from serverinspector.com, on infrastructure separate from your application, so it stays reachable during the outage it describes. Your own domain (status.yourdomain.com by CNAME) is on the roadmap; until it ships, the page lives at serverinspector.com/status/your-name.
Be early, be specific about impact and avoid speculating about cause. A short first update within minutes builds more trust than a perfect explanation an hour later. Keep a regular cadence until resolution, then post a brief summary.
A public history of uptime is also evidence. When a customer asks about reliability during a renewal, a 90-day record with documented incident durations is a stronger answer than a number in a slide.
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