Please add a custom 404 page in maintenance mode

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Please add a custom 404 page in maintenance mode

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February 25, 2008 at 4:43 am

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While I realise that SQLServerCentral has to go down for maintenance on occasion, I find it slightly irritating that there's no custom 404 page when this happens. There is a 'home' page which says it's down for maintenance, but since I, and I suspect most people, connect to SQLserverCentral by clicking on a link in the newsletter (like 'http://www.sqlservercentral.com/links/374267/30614'), it's not helpful to just get the default Microsoft 404 page. A more useful action would be to redirect to the same 'system down for maintenance' report, hopefully with a better indication of when it will be back than the present 'back soon'.
Derek

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 1

When did this occur? There should not have been downtime?

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 2

Apologies. Just heard that two of the databases (4 exists between this site and Database Weekly) were moved to a new array to balance the load today.

The home page was set to our maintenance page, but not the 404. This has been changed for the future.

StarNamer SSCrazy Eights Points: 8746 More actions · Answer 3

Thanks Steve.

For info, it was down at about 9:30am GMT (UK) Monday morning. Not sure what time this corresponds to wherever the server is (since it could be almost anywhere!).

Derek

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 4

Confirmed. Can't remember what the message was, but it suggested that something had changed in our firewall!

Funny thing is, each of the three forums (fora?) I spend most time on at present were all down at some time around last weekend. Still trying to figure out the link between SQL Server and English longbows. Now if SSC had been hosted the other side of the Channel rather than the other side of the pond...

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 5

I believe that the physical servers are near London somewhere.

We're trying to be more cognizant of downtime and the entire site should be covered by the maintenance page now.