Maintenance mode on App Platform (serving 503 responses)
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Jim Fisher
I need to put my app into "maintenance mode" while performing a database migration. During this time the app must serve a 503 response to all requests: non-503 responses are damaging to SEO.
Implementing maintenance mode myself is currently impossible, because deliberate 503 responses are swallowed by the reverse proxy and/or Cloudflare.
Awais Malik
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Thank you so much for taking the time to share this excellent feedback with us. Based on this feedback, we now support Maintenance mode on App Platform.
You can read more about this feature here:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/release-notes/#2024-10-29
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/maintenance-mode/
If you need any help getting started, please reach out to our support team at https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/
Thank you again for your feedback and we hope you continue to share your needs with us.
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Matthew Kaye
+1 to this! just requested the same thing. Heroku has this feature, and I'd love to see it in App Platform too