What is the best practice to inform users if the services is down? In my example it’s an application upload function that may be over capacity.
Thanks.
Uli
What is the best practice to inform users if the services is down? In
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What is the best practice to inform users if the services is down? In my example it’s an application upload function that may be over capacity.
Thanks.
Uli
There are many ways that this can be accomplished and it all depends on what best fits your particular application.
If all you are looking to do is disable a feature, like in your example of disabling the upload feature, you could put a prominent message at the top of that page that says that it is not currently available and then disable the upload button on that page.
If you plan to take down the whole site for maintenance, it’s good to have it as a separate page that is not linked to the rest of your site in any way. That way you can modify anything within your site, and also make a lot of changes to your web server.