Facebook Outage. My hat to you for transparency

I was impressed yesterday by how Facebook dealt with their first outage in 4 years.

They kept everyone informed via twitter, blog and their status page. I think they were transparent to some degree about the issue. More companies need to do this. My Hat to you Facebook!

Here is a list of other great companies that believe in transparency and have an open window to their system’s health:

• Dyn http://status.dyn-inc.com/
• Castfire http://status.castfire.com/
• Salesforce http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status/
• DoubleClick http://qos.doubleclick.net (by yours truly – circa 2000)
• Mediatemple https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204405094/server-status
• Amazon AWS http://status.aws.amazon.com/
• Google App Status http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en

If you know of any other companies with a status page, please add them to the comment and I will keep this list growing.

Have a great Friday full of uptime!

Mehdi.