MonsterTools handles maintenance for you without any headache. When your application is in maintenance mode, a custom view will be displayed for all requests into your application. In order to gain access to your site you need to ensure that you copy the access URL or Token. Without that you won't be able to access backend or front end of the site.
When you Enable the Maintenance mode the access URL and Token will appear on your screen make sure to bookmark that URL:
If you forgot to bookmark access URL or have lost it then there are two ways you can still gain the access to your site.
Disable Maintenance Mode using SSH/Terminal
If your hosting provider gives you access to SSH or your cPanel has web based terminal access all you have to do is run the below given command to disable the maintenance mode.
# disable maintenance mode php artisan up
Disable Maintenance Mode using FTP
If you do not have SSH or Terminal access then you can use Filemanager or FTP Client to disable Maintenance mode. Simply connect to FTP and change directory to the following path:
/storage/framework/
From the framework directory please remove these two files and maintenance mode will turn off.
1. down 2. maintenance.php