Think pound can already do things on your wish list.

> Ability to set properties dynamically to run down connections to individual 
> back ends / full services / entire Pound. This would help taking nodes out of 
> load balance, for example, for maintenance.

You can deactivate backends with poundctl and bring them back later.

> Keeping Pound online whilst doing this could allow it to present a default 
> "If you are seeing this page, the service you are looking for is undergoing 
> maintenance" kind of thing. This'd be really useful in my 24/7 environment, 
> where my back ends don't have graceful wind down of connections.

Pound has several Err-Config directives for that, like:

Err500  "/var/www/pound/500.html"
Err503  "/var/www/pound/503.html"


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