jay0316 Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 We have our website hosted on our own internal ubuntu server. The power is going to be shutdown this weekend because the power company will be working on our power lines. What is the best way to serve up a down for maintenance page or something to our customers so that it doesn't just look like our site disappeared? The only option I've thought of so far is an external hosting account that we store some maitenance pages on and redirect our company websites to those for the weekend. Is there a better way? Thanks. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215354-power-outage/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFMaBiSmAd Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 I would rent or borrow a small backup generator and power the minimum necessary equipment to keep your site online. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215354-power-outage/#findComment-1119873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 I would go a step further than that and buy a ups. You shouldn't really be running any production servers without one. I run a few dev servers from home and even have my own ups there. It'll only hold up for about 45 minutes, but still, its something. As for displaying a 'maintenance' page. Some DNS services offer this, check yours. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215354-power-outage/#findComment-1119994 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay0316 Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 I will check out the backup generator and what our DNS Service Provider has as far as maintenance page options. The power is going to be out from 7:30am to 5:00pm. So, I don't think the UPS is going to help. Thanks for the feedback guys. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215354-power-outage/#findComment-1120183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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