<b>The status page that's always green</b>

<b>The status page that's always green</b>
Heard this week: word from an ops insider is that a few hosts have quietly raised the threshold that triggers a public incident, so partial outages and elevated error rates ride out as 'green' while support handles complaints one DM at a time.
What it means for you: the status page is a marketing surface now, not a monitoring one. Your real uptime signal is your own external monitor, not their reassuring dashboard.
Unconfirmed, but we hear one provider downgraded a multi-hour degradation to a 'maintenance note' after the fact.
Watch this: if support knows about an issue your host's status page doesn't, you've learned exactly how that page is run.