I noticed yesterday that the EU CoH servers have an RSS feed for their server status (as well as on the website) but the US servers only have a page on the website, no RSS feed. I thought an RSS feed would be handy so I spent some time yesterday and today writing a PHP script to generate one from the site data already available. :)

If you want to keep up to date with the US server status for CoH/V via RSS you can point your aggregator at this feed. Feed will update once a minute, same as the website, if it can't get the status for some reason the error information will be sent to the stream in a readable format.

It's my first time doing RSS stuff so I may have made a mistake with this somewhere but I've checked the output over at Feed Validator and it hasn't complained so, fingers crossed, it'll work fine from the start.

If you do find a problem with it feel free to let me know.

Edit: On second thoughts I've decided to drop the guid property from the status items, even though Feed Validator complains about that (it is an optional property in the RSS 2.0 spec after all). I think that, with it setup this way, if you're subscribed to the feed you won't get spammed with 'new' items every minute, just when the status of an item changes (which is the behaviour I'm trying to go for). Maybe I want to re-add the GUIDs with more granularity? Before they were using the timestamp + server name, maybe date (and not time) + server name would be better…