Can you implement a site down page?

[Pommie]

At the moment (in the last hour) I've been getting a notification that this site could not be reached and I should check various things like my internet connection. A simple maintenance page would explain what is happening and stop needless checks. Most other sites manage to do this without a problem.

Mike.
Unless, of course, it was an actual outage.

 

[Buk]

Ditto.

 

[augustinetez]

Or just use https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ to see if it is actually offline.

 

[Pommie]

Or just use https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ to see if it is actually offline.

Another thing to check which would be totally avoided by a "site down" page.

Mike.

 

[augustinetez]

But how do you post a site down page if the server has crashed?

 

[JimB]

I guess that this sort of thing comes in to the category of "First World Problems".

JimB

 

[shortbus=]

Unless, of course, it was an actual outage

Not an outage at all, they were testing how to put ads on every page now. Instead of the 2 that now come up, one left side and then one on the right side.

 

[augustinetez]

Yes, there are just too many external causes that could make a site unreachable.