Can StatusPage.io, when it detects an outage, automatically have traffic routed to a static "emergency mode" page such as was discussed here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033147) a few days ago?
Are you asking about us having an outage on our site, or you having an outage on your site? If the latter, you could definitely set up a redirect like the mentioned article to forward all of your traffic to your status page. We'll be doing a similar integration with Heroku for their maintenance and error pages.
Right, I'm asking about us, as a prospective customer, having an outage on our site.
I only skimmed (and bookmarked / todo'ed) the "emergency mode" article. I haven't dug into it yet. Maybe it's not much work, but in the spirit of offloading the status page work to a SaaS provider such as StatusPage.io, I wondered if StatusPage.io couldn't also allow me to cross "set up an emergency mode site" off my list by solving the whole site-down communication problem at once.
