Had an oddball thought about hosted websites.

Like our phones have a Failover Feature, it would be interesting to provide a site-down Failover Feature. The thought came to me when I added a Static Web Page to the site Maintenance Mode Page.

If the request for a valid domain comes from a browser, and the domain is just not there, a Failover Server would be nice. Not to mirror the site, just to provide an alternate page to serve the users trying to reach me.

If there already is such a technique ... great.
Even VOIPo has gone off the grid a few times.
Such a Failover might have to be in a whole different Data center because Murphy is the law!
It could be a new hook for HostGator advertising

A general page like ...

Seems like someone tripped over the power cord ...
(Actually Technical Difficulties. Perhaps: http://somepage.tld/sorry.pdf )