A maintenance page is a temporary placeholder for times when a site or app needs to be taken offline for updates, backups or maintenance. It tells the visitor that the site they’re trying to reach is temporarily unavailable because the team behind the scenes is doing some work. It’s not a crime scene, just a temporary construction zone.
Maintenance pages might feel a little like a stroll down memory lane. Or maybe you can’t even remember the last time you encountered one. Blame/thank advances in zero downtime maintenance. Modern databases and web servers have gotten really effective at allowing teams to do routine updates without taking the system offline. You might think a maintenance page is unnecessary. You might never even need it. But we still recommend having one on standby.
