Status Pages
A status page is a public web page your customers can open to see whether the services you chose are up. It uses your name and optional logo. It does not require a RanchAlerts login unless you put a password on it.
Create monitors first. The status page only lists the ones you check. A marketing site and a VPN concentrator do not have to share a page. Visitors never see the rest of your account.
Overall status is the availability of monitors that are not in maintenance. Devices in an active window appear in an “In Maintenance” card so a planned fiber cut does not look like a surprise outage.
Classic is a centered light page. Night and Day share a compact 90-day layout on dark or light. You cannot paste custom HTML or CSS. That keeps the page fast and safe.
Optional logo, homepage link, uptime percentages, bar charts, per-monitor details, and customer-written status updates. Incidents never auto-fill probe logs onto the public feed.
Create a CNAME from status.example.com to status.ranchalerts.com. Enter that hostname on the page, then Check DNS in the portal. When the name points at us, RanchAlerts requests a certificate so browsers can use HTTPS.
Do not create an A record to a RanchAlerts address unless we have told you to — the CNAME is the supported path.
Published pages may offer an email subscribe form. Double opt-in, unsubscribe link, no RanchAlerts accounts, no SMS. The form matches the page theme.
An optional page password is for internal IT boards. Visitors enter it once. Password-protected pages are not stored in shared caches. Leave the password blank for a public page.
Public uptime bars follow confirmed incidents, not unconfirmed probe noise. Pages refresh about every 60 seconds.
