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## When cron + static HTML stops being enough
-The whole point of this project (see the original handover this repo
-started from) was turning a monolithic cron script into modular checks -
-it was never meant to be a general monitoring platform. If a future ask
-starts pushing on one of these, say so explicitly rather than bolting a
-workaround onto the current design:
+This project started as a refactor of a single monolithic cron script
+(one `check.sh` that shelled out to various commands and heredoc'd a
+static page) into the independently-addable checks/render.sh split
+described in `statuspage/README.md`. The goal was always "modular static
+page," not "monitoring platform" - if a future ask starts pushing on one
+of these, say so explicitly rather than bolting a workaround onto the
+current design:
- **Alerting / notification on state change.** The current design is
pull-only - a human has to load the page to see anything. There's no