A status page is a nifty idea but open sourced solutions already exist: http://www.stashboard.org/ or http://www.system-status-dashboard.com/ can be installed on a $5 DO droplet or on the newly launched atlantic.net $0.99/month SSD VPS instance*.

My vote is for Nick to concentrate on aesop and continue to polish it, making it work with more themes. Right now it is still quite limited compared to what it could be.

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