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# How can I show user friendly UI, when whole vercel is down?

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Umamaheshdiddi (@umamaheshdiddi) · 2025-10-24 · ♥ 2

How can I show user friendly UI, when whole vercel is down?


Rob Hadfield (@robhadfield) · 2025-10-24 · ♥ 1

Great suggestion for discussion!


Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2025-10-24 · ♥ 1

Hey, @umamaheshdiddi! Welcome to the Vercel Community :slight_smile: 

Great question and a thread for discussion. @robhadfield do you have anything you'd like to share?

If Vercel itself is down, your app won’t be accessible since it’s hosted on Vercel’s infrastructure. There isn’t a direct workaround for that, but you can have a few fallback options in place.

One simple option is to set up a **status page** somewhere else (like GitHub Pages, Netlify, or another static host) so users can still check what’s going on. Tools like [Statuspage.io](https://statuspage.io) or Better Uptime make this easy or you can just host a small static HTML page on a different CDN.

If you're interested, check out our latest blog post on the incident that happened on Monday: 
https://vercel.com/blog/update-regarding-vercel-service-disruption-on-october-20-2025