Staying in Italy for a while I got Italian ads (and I don't speak Italian), and was also often redirected to Italian pages when I explicitly wanted the English version. For example, looking up an error code for my watch I was redirected to the Italian product page for the watch instead of the forum with the answer I wanted.
I guess a VPN could be a workaround, but does the average Joe know what a VPN is?
I've stayed in multiple Airbnbs avg 6 weeks since January. The first one had mold everywhere. Took two weeks to get refunded by Airbnb. Talked with like 10 customer service people. Customer service found alternatives that was 50% more expensive, but we couldn't afford that, so had to book something not-so-great ourselves. Got a small coupon as compensation.
I think it's very problematic that a major cloud provider is unable to update their status page, even when this has been ongoing for days.
All green ticks here: https://status.azure.com/en-us/status
1. Enter the URL of the cloud provider's status page into your browser and press enter.
2. If the status page loads instantly, all services are go.
3. If the status page takes between 2 and 5 seconds to serve, the cloud provider is experiencing a slowdown.
4. If the status page takes between 5 and 30 seconds to load, the cloud provider is experiencing a major problem.
5. If the status page takes between 30 seconds and 1 minute to load, requires you to refresh before you can see it, or fails to load completely such as with missing images, then the cloud provider is experiencing widespread problems in multiple regions and has only sporadic availability.
6. If the status page doesn't load at all, all services are down. Check the CEO's twitter page.
7. If the CEO's twitter page has a pinned tweet telling you not to worry, then all of your data has been lost.
From my experience, status pages usually are out of date unless they are internal. If you want the real info and are seeing issues on your end, check Twitter or open a ticket. Usually Twitter is faster.
