Remember to build a decent HTTP 5xx Page

For whatever reason your webservers might not be able to serve – be it an update, some problem, or any other outage. ( I’m not an operations engineer.) Don’t let your visitors see a stacktrace or default Nginx page then!

Build and serve a page with

• the look of your brand,
• ideally your company logo, inlined into the HTML code, and
• a message informing that there is an outage, and you are aware of the outage and are working on it. (You are aware? Are you not?!) I personally prefer a neutral tone – instead of those apologetic, pseudo cute, not-really-funny messages that only sound suitable in the heads of the marketing team.