Not being an experienced developer (I would say I’m on the basic level, actually), trying the nginx solution to present a maintenance page was a bit of a nightmare. Today, I had this idea and decided to ask Claude if this would be possible, now that I use Railway for other websites and applications: …

Hey! I’m not answering your question, just being curious. Why do you think you need a maintenance page? Seems quite annoying to set up for little benefit. My instances are down 5 minutes a month for updates and that’s basically all.

Whenever I made significant changes, like installing plugins for example, it would take sometimes 20 minutes. Not a big deal, if we consider that these are not done every week or even every month, but for a new visitor that ugly page that something is not working, is not a good first impression. Ev…

i have a solution but i don’t have time to post it right now. will reply later. [image]

Maintenance page workaround - can this be done?

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merefield (Robert) July 31, 2026, 4:32pm 5

It takes seconds if you move to the two container install.

You can even schedule the switch over at night if you really want to, whilst you and/or your main audience sleep.

You don’t need a maintenance page.

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Maintenance page workaround - can this be done?

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