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So I develop all my sites online, usually at the domain/hosting of the webhost I use for all my sites.
(Sometimes I use a staging domain in my bulk hosting if a site already exists).
I'm too lazy to set up my own personal server and faff about with moving it when it's finished.

Therefore I use 'Maintenance Mode' all the time.
I've tried using marketing pages for my business as the 'Down for Maintenance' page. But I usually end up with Down for Maintenance text - the default.

The other problem I have is getting clients to send me their IP address, so I can add them to the IP exclude list. Some client are OK, but some just don't get it. (Even with detailed instructions and a link).

So I just added a jotform.com form with a single name field. It's free if you have under 5 forms.


In the form settings you can choose to include the senders IP address in the form submission.



Embeded the form into the Site Down Message: So much simpler than building my own IP collecting form!

A very nice solution.
What are the underscores good for in and ?

Not sure.
I copied it from a similar post I did on the Slack channel. I think Slack must have added them.
The code should be: I just added it here (above) from my Global Settings/Maintenance Mode page and it look like it's this forum that is adding the underscores.

It's has to, there was no easy way to escape HTML code and we had the forum defaced a few times because of some posts with code snippets. Most long time users are already aware that the underscores are to be ignored .