Read Only Forums during downtime

[Coup27]

I have no idea what is involved in this but is it out of the question to provide the forums in read only mode during scheduled downtime?

 

[EagleKeeper]

I suspect that the load on the DB system would bring it to it's knees

 

[Ken g6]

1. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30878
2. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache:http://forums.anandtech.com

Enjoy!