I am new to netlify . I want to use netlify drop to host game on websites like poki, miniclip and many more . Can netlify handle 2k users at a time when bandwidth is under 100 GB under free plan? What happens when 100 GB is consumed in a month?

By offline , you mean deleting site completely ? Or is there any means to keep it offline?

You could re-deploy a very ‘streamlined’ version of the site with a blank page and provide an appropriate error code. Even better, you could add a redirect rule to a _redirects file: /* /302.html 302! That would force all traffic from your site to yoursite.com/302.html and provide a 302 status …

Once site is published, there is no button which I press through netlify to stop that website completely for some days . I will have to edit for html file ? [image] Scott: You could re-deploy a very ‘streamlined’ version of the site with a blank page and provide an appropriate error code. T…

@Ayu , No – there’s no ‘take my site down’ button, unfortunately! However, we do have a small maintenance mode workflow . Although this would use bandwidth, it’d be minimal – particularly as the simple ~5kb site would be cached. If you’re using Netlify DNS and a custom domain, sure! You have the pow…

If you’re worried about bandwidth, just put Cloudflare in front of your site to absorb more bandwidth.

hey there, you might find this interesting: [image] [Support Guide] What problems could occur when using Cloudflare in front of Netlify? Support Guides Last reviewed by Netlify Support - August, 2023 Note: We recommend not using both Cloudflare’s CDN (“Accelerate and Pro…

Ok so I will deploy manually I will create an index.html with Our site is down for maintenance Then 1. I will put it under a folder maintenance. Could you be more specific as to how to do 2nd step 2 .drag that folder to your deploy listings on the site you want to put under maintenance. This will…

I am not that familiar with cloudflare as to how can I do this .

I don’t think I will use cloudflare for netlify so no worries for that .

ayu, are you following the steps outlined here? [image] [Support Guide] What’s the easiest way to create a temporary “maintenance page” for my site? Support Guides Last Reviewed by Netlify Support Staff: December 2022 So you need to take your site offline for maintenance…

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Ayu July 10, 2020, 7:29pm 19

It helped. I uploaded html folder with html file having head as "under maintenance ".
This was shown .
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When site will go under maintenance in coming days , I will use 302.html .

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