I will look into this. Have thought about setting up something for when maintenance is happening.
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Hey, did you ever get a chance to explore this?
I run Uptime Kuma on my personal server, it works as a standalone Docker container if that's your jam: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
Of course you probably don't want to run it on the same server you're running Lemmy on to avoid it also going down. Personally I run it on a free tier Oracle Cloud instance.
There have been a few outages lately so it would be helpful to have a reference for status and to see communications.
I know being a sysadmin is thankless work, I'm a DevOps engineer by trade :) so thanks for all you do. And if you ever need tips I have my work and personal home lab as a reference.
FWIW Beehaw uses gatus which is easy to setup and customize to your values. Also has some nifty uptime 'buttons' to showcase you history. Beehaw live status https://status.beehaw.org/
Thanks!