Add an offline page to display when Discourse is rebuilding or starting up

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@fefrei I am not sure this is needed, because I just rebuilt talk.commonmark.org using the standard web updater. I had two browser windows open:

  1. Home page of site in one window, in anon mode
  2. /admin/upgrade rebuild process going in one window

I mashed f5 like an insane :monkey_face: in window #1 and at no point during the rebuild was the site unavailable to me as an anonymous user hitting the homepage. Screenshot proof:

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So.. if there is never an outage during a typical web update.. is this complex hack really needed?

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