We've had a Twitter account setup (
http://twitter.com/PPCGeeksDotCom), which automatically posts our news articles from our front page.
We will also be using that for status updates in case we have server issues.
To make an easy-to-remember URL, you can use:
http://status.ppcgeeks.com
Also, if the site seems to be running slow, you can go to
http://www.ppcgeeks.com/stats.php to check the server load. As long as its below 3 the server is under a low load and should be running good. We usually average between 1 and 2.