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As a happy StatusPage user, I am worried about this acquisition. Been more and more frustrated with Atlassian and recently we had to move away from HipChat due to multiple issues (constant downtimes).

What are the good alternatives to StatusPage?

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We use Cachet[1], an open source alternative. We checked out many status page services out there, but found it hard to understand how some of them (web apps with a handful of pages) were more expensive than our accounting system or project management services we subscribe to?!?

[1] - https://cachethq.io/

Status pages are best hosted offsite, which means status page companies can easily justify higher prices since the alternative is to run your own servers exclusively for the status page (can't just throw the status page software on your app server).

I'm skeptical that running Cachet on your own servers would be cheaper than StatusPage's smallest plan, especially if you have any kind of redundancy in place.

Our main stack is on Amazon AWS (West Coast) and we run Cachet on a $5/mo Digital Ocean Droplet on the East Coast for redundancy. Took about 30 minutes to set up Cachet on the DO VPS.

That is enough redundancy for our little bootstrapped web app until we are large enough to be able to afford something better.

And for another $5 you could likely round robin dns a vpn in Europe. Being cheap is fun.

For those interested - I just blogged about how we set this up here: http://devan.blaze.com.au/blog/2016/7/15/building-a-status-p...

Some are not that expensive, Runstatus[1] is 5$ a year with first year free.

[1] - https://runstatus.com

Hey, Lead Developer of Cachet here! Thanks for sharing a link to our project!

@Everyone, if there is anything I can do to help, let me know! You can email us james@alt-three.com to discuss more.

Are you really going to ditch StatusPage that quickly? I'm not a huge Atlassian fan myself, but StatusPage is a great tool.

Not really, just looking for alternatives. Atlassian so far has been leaving a bad taste for us.

It is good to know which alternatives exist, "just in case".

>What are the good alternatives to StatusPage?

http://i.imgur.com/adl7Yc3.png

hund.io is the best alternative in my opinion. It integrates with pingdom too, and has some other cool features.

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