I previously wrote about making a downtime page: http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2009/08/24/downtime-page-in-apache/ http://journal.paul.querna.org/art

I previously wrote about making a downtime page: http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2009/08/24/downtime-page-in-apache/ http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2009/08/24/downtime-... One thing you'll probably want to do is set 5xx HTTP status codes on your static site, and to try to get things to not cache it as much as possible.. A redirect to a subdomain hosted on s3 makes it more likely something like Google will pick up on it.