24 x 7 uptime guaranteed
As a web site owner we all boast about 24 x 7 uptime. But somewhere down below in our hearts we know it’s difficult. We need to bring down the website for maintenance, fixingdefects, upgrading etc.
Easy way…
As an innocent c# ASP.NET developer you would think how about just stopping IIS web server, do your activity(maintenance, fixing defect etc.) and then start the IIS again.
While this looks to be a but obvious way of solving the problem but it’s not the best way if we consider the end user perspective. The end user would see an ugly screen as shown below leading to more confusion.
Rather than end user seeing that kind of absurd screen how about showing something more better and informative like: - “Site is under maintenance and will be live till 3:00 AM”.
Going offline graciously:-App_Offline.htm
Also I would like to highlight here it’s not about showing the error message but technically we would like to ensure that the following things happen in IIS:-- Application domain under which the website is running is brought down.
- All incoming request coming to the ASP.NET site needs to stopped.
- All request to be routed to the temporary page which is created.
- After maintenance the application domain should be loaded and the incoming request should be processed in a normal manner.
Once done you can delete the file and your web site app domain is loaded and the normal life continues.
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