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https://status.canonical.com is green across the board, and yet archive.ubuntu.com it has been failing to load packages for a while now.

Not a massive problem for us... can imagine it might be a problem for many though (service agreement or no) - it does annoy me when status pages don't show an accurate status though. Makes me feel like the point of them is just to pretend they care.

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Yeah, I have a project that I've been wanting to add a status page to for a while. I haven't done it yet because I want to display accurate information about the inner workings of the system, which will take actual time and effort.

Meanwhile, large organizations seem to almost universally just have a static page with a bunch of green checks that don't change no matter what.

Maybe I should just serve the status page from within the app, and if you can't reach it that means something is broken! At least then it's providing some information about the state of the system.

It’s finally showing “Major Outage” now, “Archive servers overloaded”.

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