There's no standard status page, and other lessons from tracking 96 providers

Short summary

The author built OutageDeck to aggregate status pages from 96 cloud/SaaS providers and discovered there is no standard status format. Atlassian Statuspage is the closest to common, but the long tail includes bespoke APIs, RSS feeds, and even UTF-16-encoded AWS event feeds. Key lessons: provider timestamps are unreliable for uptime calculation, some feeds are stale or frozen, and a lean Postgres + Next.js backend at $55/month suffices if you stop trusting upstream time and roll your own observation timestamps.

• •No standard status page format exists across 96 providers; six adapters needed
• •Provider timestamps lag by days, so uptime must be computed from your own check time
• •Lean architecture: one Next.js app + Postgres, no queue, ~$55/month

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