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I might be mistaken, but I always thought that status pages are supposed to be hosted by a third party.

Am I supposed to have this run on a separate (presumably) dedicated server? Otherwise what's the point of having this running if it becomes inaccessible the instant my server goes down?

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It entirely depends on your reason and expectation of the service. Yes, it would be best to separately host it on entirely different infra. However, if you have 1 x server, and you want to check that the services it is running are functional (such as a web server, app and database are functional), then co-locating this on there would be ok, providing the server itself doesn't go AWOL.

However, running this on a dedicated virtual server or raspberry pi would likely be always better.

In case of status page you would want to host it in a different server / zone.

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