Add feature to push an App_Offline.htm at the click of button
Originally started here -> http://support.appharbor.com/discussions/problems/373-deployment-feature-idea
Hello AppHarbor,
Being that you're doing well to support much of the "built-in" items of an asp.net web application, one item that I tend to like especially during a deployment is the built in feature of ~/App_Offline.htm file.
If in your admin pages you had a page with a big text box where we could put any text/html in there that could be used as an App_Offline.htm page. And then you'd give us a toggle style button (Take Offline | Bring Online). I think this could really be beneficial while doing say database maintenance or other upgrades.
Right now I know that I can commit an App_Offline.htm file, push it up and wait for it to automatically get deployed. This is time consuming, and a bit annoying to be cluttering up my git commits with "adding app offline"..."removing app offline"... etc.
staxmanade
shared this idea
This is now possible with https://github.com/anglicangeek/MaintMan (hosted version here: http://maintman.apphb.com/ )
http://twitter.com/#!/anglicangeek/status/107640117539254272
