Taking an ASP.NET application offline
Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog,
on 12 Jul 2006 |
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Sometimes it’s necessary to take an ASP.NET application offline. A common scenario is when you need to update the database or running some mainteanance updates that might put the application or database into an unstable state and you generally don’t want to have your customers/users accessing the site while the application is in this unstable state.
There are a variety of ways to accomplish this of course. First you can of course physically pull the plug on your Web server <g>....