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Maintenance mode

Switch a site to a maintenance page in one click. Your team keeps working through SSH and the panel, and the IPs you allow in the firewall get straight past HTTP auth — the same list that guards SSH.

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Maintenance On
kilnandcopse.com · Production
Preview the pageTurn maintenance off
Maintenance page is showing to visitors since 09:14. Your team keeps working through SSH and the panel. Search engines get a 503 with Retry-After, so rankings are unaffected.
While it is on
  • Your teamSSH and the panel, as normal
  • Visitorsholding page · 503 to search engines

Visitors see the page on the right.

kilnandcopse.com
Down for maintenance We’ll be back shortly.
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Maintenance mode, step by step

  1. 1

    Switch it on

    Every environment has a Maintenance switch in its header. Turning it on asks once, then applies straight away.

    manage.corefinity.com/managed-clusters
    Turn on maintenance for kilnandcopse.com

    Visitors see a maintenance page until you turn this off. Your team keeps working through SSH and the panel.

    Applies straight away. Search engines get a 503 with Retry-After, so a short break does not affect rankings.

    Cancel Turn on maintenance
  2. 2

    Visitors see a holding page

    Search engines get a 503 with Retry-After, so rankings hold. Turn it off from the banner when you are done.

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    kilnandcopse.com Magento 2 Maintenance

    Production · PHP 8.3 · MariaDB 11.8 · Tier M

    Maintenance On
    Maintenance page is showing to visitors since 09:14. Your team keeps working through SSH and the panel. Turn maintenance off
    What visitors see
    kilnandcopse.com
    ! Down for maintenance We’ll be back shortly.
    What search engines get 
    HTTP/2 503
retry-after: 300
cache-control: no-store

    They come back later, so rankings hold. Health checks still pass.

  3. 3

    Some tasks use it for you

    Magento’s setup:upgrade and turning on admin two-factor show the page while they run. It comes down when they finish.

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    Magento 2 kilnandcopse.com · Production
    • Flush cacheEvery Magento cache type, the full-page cache included.
      Applies straight away Run
    • ReindexRebuilds the indexes, all or the ones you pick.
      Applies straight away Run…
    • Run setup:upgrade Applies module schema and data upgrades. ✓Take a snapshot first
      Maintenance page while it runs Run…
    • Turn on admin two-factorTwo or three minutes while Magento recompiles.
      Maintenance page while it runs Run…

    The page comes down by itself when the task finishes.

manage.corefinity.com/managed-clusters
Turn on maintenance for kilnandcopse.com

Visitors see a maintenance page until you turn this off. Your team keeps working through SSH and the panel.

Applies straight away. Search engines get a 503 with Retry-After, so a short break does not affect rankings.

Cancel Turn on maintenance
manage.corefinity.com/managed-clusters
kilnandcopse.com Magento 2 Maintenance

Production · PHP 8.3 · MariaDB 11.8 · Tier M

Maintenance On
Maintenance page is showing to visitors since 09:14. Your team keeps working through SSH and the panel. Turn maintenance off
What visitors see
kilnandcopse.com
! Down for maintenance We’ll be back shortly.
What search engines get 
HTTP/2 503
retry-after: 300
cache-control: no-store

They come back later, so rankings hold. Health checks still pass.

manage.corefinity.com/managed-clusters
Magento 2 kilnandcopse.com · Production
  • Flush cacheEvery Magento cache type, the full-page cache included.
    Applies straight away Run
  • ReindexRebuilds the indexes, all or the ones you pick.
    Applies straight away Run…
  • Run setup:upgrade Applies module schema and data upgrades. ✓Take a snapshot first
    Maintenance page while it runs Run…
  • Turn on admin two-factorTwo or three minutes while Magento recompiles.
    Maintenance page while it runs Run…

The page comes down by itself when the task finishes.

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Options and limits

Everything here is per site or per environment, from the panel, with every change in the activity log.

Where
A switch in each environment’s header. Production, staging and development are separate.
Takes effect
Straight away. Turning it on asks you to confirm; turning it off does not.
Search engines
A 503 with Retry-After, never cached, so they come back later.
Health checks
Keep passing while the page is up, so nothing restarts.
Shown in the panel
A Maintenance badge and a banner on the site, with the time it went on.
PageSpeed
Daily tests pause while the page is up and resume when it is off.
While a change runs
The switch waits until a restore or another change has finished.

Questions about maintenance mode

Not for a break of a few hours. Search engines get a 503 status with a Retry-After header, which tells them to come back later. They keep the pages they already have.

Not yet. Every site shows the same plain holding page, without branding. If your client needs to review work in progress, use a staging environment instead.

Per environment. Turning it on for production leaves staging and development as they are, and the other way round.

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