Will a $5 droplet handle the surge of traffic when your main site is down. I don't know your userload, but you should consider that.
Nothing worse than a status page that's down.
Nothing worse than a status page that's down.
But to follow up on your point: I hope the EB script that updates the pages automatically while doing maintenance will not wait for a response to its POST requests before actually letting EB perform the maintenance. Otherwise you create a crucial unwanted dependency on your status server.
Definitely as we grow (and our revenues support it), I will either increase the capacity of our Droplet, or else look at a commercial alternative.