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brentm 29 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: GCP Outage

Yea I am pretty sure that if you're checking if a service is down your essentially casting a vote that indicates that service is down.

lysace 29 days ago [–]

Kind of a missed opportunity for Ookla - who's running both downdetector.com and speedtest.net.

The have software running in most ISPs around the world:

https://help.speedtest.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039164793-Ho...

(OTOH, it's not always trivial to define/detect an outage.)

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