I believe most of VOIPo uses Softlayer's network, including the www, forums, and back end database stuff. If there is latency in Softlayer's network due to an attack, network failure, etc, it can take down several things. That is why it is important to have an outside status page, but I would rather have a page with RSS like was posted in another thread. There are probably tools out there that would update a "blog" type page, twitter, facebook, and all of that stuff at one time.