Are the ducks online?

Inspiration

As a website and server admin for hobby sites and paid membership communities, I sense a deep bond with my users. Sometimes, code breaks or servers go down-- sometimes for minutes, and sometimes for hours. Not only does this inconvenience and frustrate users, I feel the pressure to get things working as quickly as possible and let upset users know what's going on. Replying to support requests cuts into precious minutes that could be spent resolving the issue and ending the frustration. Small teams and lone developers need a way to quickly let their users know what's going on so they can get back to work. There are many websites than can be used to check if a site is down, but they don't tell the user why. Bigger companies like to host their own status pages, but who actually checks those?

What it does

Today I'm creating aretheducks.online. ("Are the ducks online?") Finally, an effective, humorous, and personal way for developers to communicate with their patrons. "Are the ducks online?" combines site testing with user-friendly status pages.

How I built it

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Challenges I ran into

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Accomplishments that I'm proud of

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What I learned

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What's next for aretheducks.online?

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Built With

• bootsrap
• curl
• digitalocean
• php