a data store and a proxy system. The data store may store state data relating to a cell of the application, each cell having a state. The proxy system may identify whether the cell is operating in the active state, the passive state, or the fenced state and access a database of acceptable and unacceptable commands for the cell's state. For each request directed to the cell received, the proxy system may identifies the request as an acceptable request based on identifying that one or more commands of the request are acceptable to process in the cell's state or identifies the request as an unacceptable request based on identifying that one or more commands of the request are unacceptable to process in the cell's state. The proxy system then conveys the acceptable requests and unacceptable requests appropriately.