API for Backendless maintenance or update announcements

Hey guys,

yesterday with all the outages I got this idea:
It would be nice to have a REST API on your side which announces maintenance windows, update windows or when you suffer a downtime of your services. This API should be not running on the Backendless Cloud to work when the Cloud is down/not reachable.

This would be nice, so we can announce these maintenance/update windows on our website automatically and prepare our customers for it.
So far I used Uptimerobot to query one of my custom API endpoints every 5 minutes to detect if the cloud is reachable and display something on our website and app when a downtime is detected. But announcements for maintenance/updates in advance automatically would be cool.

What do you think about this?

Best regards,
Jonas

Hi, Jonas!

Thanks for your suggestion for improvement our services. We’ll discuss it.

Regards, Andrew.