Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector (downdetectorsdowndetector.com)

I remember when the CDN I was working for had to change our status page provider when our first one became our client.

Do you have anything for device management? Like managing local admin accounts on Linux, Macintosh and Windows? I'm afraid we'll have to use InTune.

American solo developer here. Moved to Hetzner two months ago. They have servers in Oregon for west coast people. My storage box is in Germany but that is okay, it is for backups.

Earlier this year, a Hetzner server I manage was shutdown, and after I started it via the console, it booted to a rescue system. In the same month, it was rebooted without a reason. There was some maintenance notice but the server was not listed as impacted.

Note that I'm not saying Hetzner is bad. Just incidents happen in Europe too. The server didn't have a lot of issues like this over the years.

We are also looking to migrate off Cloudflare. I thought Bunny.net was mostly a pure CDN, not a reverse proxy like Cloudflare. Am I wrong? One of the most important things for us would be DDoS protection.

I feel like a year is too short a time frame to measure reliability.

Wow looks like you don't have one of the most renowned benefits of capitalism: over-reliance on corporatist infrastructure.

Aren't costs higher though?

I'm curious if this site actually uses AI in some form or if it's just the hot TLD at the moment. There's no mention of AI on the page itself.

It just fakes it as far as I can tell.

script.js calls `fetchStatus()`, which calls `generateMockStatus()` to get the statuses, which just makes up random response times:

    // ---- generate deterministic mock data for the current 3-min window ----

    function generateMockStatus() {
      const bucket = getCurrentBucket();
      const rng = createRng(bucket);

      // "Virtual now" = middle of this 3-minute bucket
      const virtualNowMs = bucket * BUCKET_MS + BUCKET_MS / 2;

      // Checked a few minutes ago (2–5 min, plus random seconds)
      const minutesOffset = randomInt(rng, 2, 5);
      const secondsOffset = randomInt(rng, 0, 59);
      const checkedAtMs =
        virtualNowMs - minutesOffset * 60_000 - secondsOffset * 1000;
      const checkedAtDate = new Date(checkedAtMs);

      return {
        checkedAt: checkedAtDate.toISOString(),
        target: "https://downdetector.com/",
        regions: [
          {
            name: "London, UK",
            status: "up",
            httpStatus: 200,
            responseTimeMs: randomInt(rng, 250, 550),
            error: null
          },
          {
            name: "Auckland, NZ",
            status: "up",
            httpStatus: 200,
            responseTimeMs: randomInt(rng, 300, 650),
            error: null
          },
          {
            name: "New York, US",
            status: "up",
            httpStatus: 200,
            responseTimeMs: randomInt(rng, 380, 800),
            error: null
          }
        ]
      };
    }