When building a website, the optimal thing is that the users experience no downtime while a new version of the site is being deployed. This can however be quite complex to achieve in reality, and usually requires that you have multiple web servers.
The next best thing is that your users at least do not just get a browser showing nothing, while the page takes forever to load. While deploying, you could use the app_offline.htm, but that just blocks all requests, and when you remove it, the site still has not booted up.
In this post we will look at
- How to configure this
- What are the potential issues
- What can we do to solve it
Morten Bock 