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(overheard colleagues)
"hey, client x wants to speak to you, can I put them through?"

"what's it it about?"

*mumbles something*

"dafuq?! Oh well, put him through already 😑"

Me: hey, what did he want?

Colleague: they wanted help with setting up a page on their site with a maintenance message for when their site goes down.

Me: ah righ.... wait what? What's the function of a maintenance page on a site if the entire site is down?!

Colleague: yeah, that 🤣

Well, okay, then 😶

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that makes no sense at all

wtf

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  • 11
    5y
    So the client wants a maintenance page to come up when the site accidentally goes down? ie: "I meant to do that."
  • 3
    5y
    @bahua They want a maintenance page on their site for when their entire site goes down...
  • 4
    5y
    @linuxxx

    So, accidentally you mean?
  • 3
    5y
    I dont get it. People do this all the time. Just use a reverse proxy of some kind and put a custom 503 error page.
  • 2
    5y
    @tokumei Imagine your wordpress site going down entirely (probably including the webserver),then what's the point of having a wordpress page notifying people that its down (that's what this person wanted)?
  • 3
    5y
    @bahua Yeah like their entire wordpress installation going down and then wanting a page in that wordpress site about the outage..
  • 3
    5y
    Isn't that a load-balancer job then?
  • 3
    5y
    @xewl Not if you don't have a load balanced xD
  • 2
    5y
    Pretty easily doable with BGP failover
  • 1
    5y
    @xalys Explain?
  • 8
    5y
    @linuxxx well, if you give a client their own IP and you advertise it with BGP, you could use aspathprepend on another failover server to show that the website is offline on another server with the same IP. I call it a 'sorry server'
  • 0
    5y
    Could be done, it's called custom error pages, but it does require that the server be at least online, or failed over to a small VM that spins up when the main server is down?

    But then why not just have redundancy...
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