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Most services run their `status` service on a different server entirely. It's the only possible way it could ever make sense.

My intuition is that it is. I didn't know github was really down, but had problem accessing it. Went to status.github.com and got the results, not really knowing if the address existed or not (just guessed).

These sites are often hosted away from the main service, and thus available even when problems occur.

Actually, I've always checked status.service to see if Github is up, it must be hosted on a separate server.