I know something like this has been discussed before (something about a downtime page). But I am looking something a bit different.
Should HFS be down completely (switched off), can I have the server serve (see what I did there?) a simple 'try again later' page? Obviously a tpl won't work because HFS is off. So I am thinking an html page in place that would only come up in this circumstance.
The thing is, I don't really know how HFS presents itself to the web. I have Apache installed on the same server, and I still do and it's running. T here is a 'index.htm' file in the www folder. Before I had HFS, anyone who went to my site saw the index file. But once HFS was running all requests were taken to the HFS frontdoor. Given that fact, one would assume (as I did) that HFS could just be turned off again and people would see the index.htm file again, but now they just see a 404 error (or equivalent) unless that go to the specific I| (including the port).I didn't make any changes to my server (other than running a single exe for HFS), so I don't really know how HFS does this.
Can someone educate me? And, if this is in a FAQ somewhere, please point me there?