Status

“We build it, we run it” is easy to write and harder to show. This is what watches this site, how often, and what happens when it breaks.

Uptime

Measured from CloudWatch on 27 August 2026 and refreshed by hand, so this is a snapshot rather than a live board.

What runs, and how often

• Health check — every 30 seconds Route 53 requests the home page over HTTPS from several regions and expects a 200. This is the figure above.
• Smoke test — hourly A scripted pass over the live site: every page loads, the security headers are present and correct, the redirects go where they should, and the canonical host is the one we think it is.
• Rebuild and deploy — hourly The site rebuilds whether or not anything changed, so release versions and dates stay current, and the deploy runs the full test suite before anything is uploaded.
• Dependency audit — weekly Advisories are reported but do not gate a deploy. A blocked release is its own kind of outage.

What happens when it breaks

Alarms go to SNS and land as email and SMS. The people who built it are the people who get the message.

The free social card checker is an API anyone can call, so it watches its own compute time and throttles itself if usage crosses a threshold that would turn a free tool into a surprising invoice.

More detail on how the site is built.