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Re:Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage ... by X-Cubed on Monday January 06, 2014 @11:30PM (#7015534)
Other options would be to return status code 503 Service Unavailable with a Retry-After header, or drop connections while the dead server is busy.

Both of those would be much better than returning 200 OK.

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