docs: Add Pods maintenance, outages, and data safety page

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Creates a new page at pods/maintenance-and-outages.mdx documenting how Runpod handles planned maintenance, unplanned outages, compensation, and data safety practices, and adds it to the Pods navigation in docs.json.

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[lavanya-gunreddi]

@Promptless for the checkpointing section, Iadd links to the most common tools.
PyTorch — Saving and Loading Models
Hugging Face Transformers — Checkpointing with Trainer
Hugging Face Accelerate — Checkpointing guide
PyTorch Lightning — Checkpointing

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Thanks Lavanya! I added the four checkpointing links to the "Set up checkpointing" section, labeled exactly as you provided. The change is pushed to this PR.

[lavanya-gunreddi]

@Promptless change the data safety text to "Pods use temporary container storage by default. If your pod is interrupted, restarted, stopped, or terminated, any data that is only stored on container storage will be lost. To protect your work, always store important data on a network volume or an external backup."

[lavanya-gunreddi]

@Promptless change the data safety text to "Pods use temporary container storage by default. If your pod is interrupted, restarted, stopped, or terminated, any data that is only stored on container storage will be lost. To protect your work, always store important data on a network volume or an external backup."

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Done — I've updated the data safety text to your exact requested wording:

Pods use temporary container storage by default. If your pod is interrupted, restarted, stopped, or terminated, any data that is only stored on container storage will be lost. To protect your work, always store important data on a network volume or an external backup.

The change is committed and pushed to this PR. Thanks @lavanya-gunreddi!

[lavanya-gunreddi]

Remove this line "Runpod does not back up user data. You are responsible for backing up your own data and securing those backups." from the data safety section.