If you read the chronology, it appears that if they had done this at the 
beginning, the incident would have been over two hours sooner.

On Oct 29, 2012, at 5:13 PM, Benjamin Possolo <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Saturday, October 27, 2012 9:28:44 AM UTC-7, Joakim wrote:
> You could probably do something like this if you serve through CloudFlare, 
> but it would be much nicer if we could set a page for this in the app config. 
> I'll file a feature request tomorrow, unless someone else wants to or has 
> already done so. Suggestions for specifications would be appreciated. For 
> example, it would probably be wise to aggressively push these error pages to 
> some kind of edge cache, and to make implementation easier it could be 
> limited to accepting a single HTML file per app.
> 
> I think this would be a valid request. It would great if Google could just 
> flick a collective switch for all of our apps to render a maintenance page 
> when something big like this happens.
> My DNS is handled by a separate hosting provider and sending a request ticket 
> to them would just take forever.
> 
> I would be happy if I could just show a static HTML page with inline CSS (the 
> obligatory, moderately funny 500 image would be hosted elsewhere).
> 
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