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Re:If blacking out your website, return status code 503 to a... by SquareWheel on Monday January 16, 2012 @10:30PM (#3473637)
I see it's already hit the front page, but here is another page of advice directly from a Googler: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115984868678744352358/posts/Gas8...
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Re:If blacking out your website, return status code 503 to a... by amirmc on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @03:55AM (#3474258)
The author (pierrefar) also commented in the HN thread of that post about JavaScript suggestions he'd come across.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3470396

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Re:If blacking out your website, return status code 503 to a... by SquareWheel on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @08:24PM (#3477387)
SeoMoz now has a more technical rundown on how to do a 503 status code: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-handle-downtime-during-sit...
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