We have experienced problems when doing a release to production where we need to import page types to a public site that is very busy. Even if we recycle the web, it almost instantly gets new requests, which will make it nearly impossible to import page types, or updates to existing ones. This is especially true for front page and dynamic properties.

I've done my google but cannot seem to find any article that discusses best practice for this kind of situation. We need to have Epi running in order to perform the import, but we don't want to serve any pages during the update. Is there a way to do this?