Boru down redirect suggestion

[ravenmrb67]

Currently when Boru goes down, a 404 error page is displayed with information that may suggest to a user the web pages have been removed, or a URL construct error of some sort.

I suggest we have a landing page that displays server status to the user, and to return later when the service is available.

a connection check with redirect could be placed in the 404 file

yes, no?

[Livewire]

What 404 error page is shown? If it's the generic "Page not found" page that the browser displays, that'd be case A below. If it's the "Website not found!" page that x10hosting has, that'd be case B below.

For Case A, (no sarcasm intended here) the server itself is offline. There's no way to display an error page of -our- choosing when the server isn't online to display it.

For Case B, this I can see being very useful. There's times after a reboot where the home directory doesn't show up right away, and during those times it'd be a nice error page to display.