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Usually when I perform maintenance that requires briefly taking my site down, I put up a 503 page using something similar to How can I make Nginx return HTTP 503 when my proxied app server is down?.

However, I'm about to upgrade my Digital Ocean droplet to a larger size, so the 503 error won't get sent. One way I could achieve this is to put my 503 error page on a separate droplet and redirect my DNS to this other IP address while I upgrade the droplet. However, I'm afraid this might raise flags with Google if they crawl my site then.

How should I go about notifying users and bots that I'm performing maintenance when I have to take down my entire server?

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Google really doesn't care that your IP address flops around a little. Just change the DNS (with an appropriately low TTL set well in advance to ensure your visitors with cached DNS don't go to the machine under maintenance).

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How about using the floating IP functionality to temporarily redirect your traffic to a different droplet?

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