Well, then what's the point in keeping a status page ? Ah, right. Marketing.

That's my conclusion on what status pages have become. Which of course raises the question: what do I do when I see a service with N problems in their status pages over the last X days? Are they being naive, or was their service so bad that they were forced to write it down?

I agree with you, there is a lot of money to make there. I think there are already a few companies doing that, though.