Shutting Down For Maintenance

[synthesys]

Now that I've gotten far enough to worry about this stuff:

 

What is the recommended method for shutting down your site for maintenance (and starting back up)? Isn't there something more graceful than renaming the index file and forcing an error?

 

 

George

[TCH-Thomas]

You could make a "We are redesigning" index.html page and then rename the current index.html to index2.html.

This way the visitors will not get an error and you will get time to redesign it behind the scenes.

Or you could design in another folder and then just move it to the correct place when done.

[jayson]

The way I do it is that I do a dump. (backup) and then do the work and then after it is done, I reupload the files there is no downtime