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We built a status page service on Cloudflare

The article explains how Ampliflare built a status page service using Cloudflare's architecture, leveraging Workers, Durable Objects, and other Cloudflare services to provide reliable uptime monitoring and status display for external services.

Background

- **Cloudflare** is a major internet infrastructure company whose products include a global CDN (content-delivery network), DDoS protection, DNS services, and "Workers" — a serverless computing platform that lets developers run code close to users worldwide. - **Status pages** are public dashboards (e.g., status.github.com) that companies use to show whether their services are up or down; **Atlassian Statuspage** is the dominant commercial provider. - This post describes **ampliflare.com**'s own project: they built a cheap, lightweight status-page service entirely on Cloudflare's free/paid tiers (Workers, D1 database, R2 storage) as an alternative to paying Atlassian or other third parties. - It matters because it's a concrete case study of how small teams can replace expensive SaaS tools with Cloudflare's "edge" platform, trading setup effort for lower recurring cost and full data control.

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