diff --git a/docs/en/basic_configuration.md b/docs/en/basic_configuration.md
index 0bf0005f..6141f7ff 100644
--- a/docs/en/basic_configuration.md
+++ b/docs/en/basic_configuration.md
@@ -48,6 +48,18 @@ class MyFormPage extends Page
 }
 ```
 
+## Excluding response codes
+
+Default behaviour is that static files are generated for all page responses, regardless of the response's status code.
+If you would like to exclude certain status codes from being statically cached, add them here
+
+```yaml
+SilverStripe\StaticPublishQueue\Publisher\FilesystemPublisher:
+  disallowed_status_codes:
+    - 404
+    - 500
+```
+
 ## Control when child/parent pages are regenerated in cache actions
 
 There are two configurations available, and they can both be set to one of three available values:
diff --git a/src/Publisher/FilesystemPublisher.php b/src/Publisher/FilesystemPublisher.php
index ca9084fd..0a34f9d7 100644
--- a/src/Publisher/FilesystemPublisher.php
+++ b/src/Publisher/FilesystemPublisher.php
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 
 class FilesystemPublisher extends Publisher
 {
+    private static array $disallowed_status_codes = [];
+
     /**
      * @var string
      */
@@ -101,19 +103,32 @@ public function publishURL($url, $forcePublish = false)
     {
         if (!$url) {
             user_error('Bad url:' . var_export($url, true), E_USER_WARNING);
+
             return;
         }
+
         $success = false;
         $response = $this->generatePageResponse($url);
         $statusCode = $response->getStatusCode();
         $doPublish = ($forcePublish && $this->getFileExtension() === 'php') || $statusCode < 400;
 
+        if (in_array($statusCode, static::config()->get('disallowed_status_codes'))) {
+            return [
+                'published' => false,
+                // Considering this a "success" since the behaviour is as expected
+                'success' => true,
+                'responsecode' => $statusCode,
+                'url' => $url,
+            ];
+        }
+
         if ($statusCode >= 300 && $statusCode < 400) {
             // publish redirect response
             $success = $this->publishRedirect($response, $url);
         } elseif ($doPublish) {
             $success = $this->publishPage($response, $url);
         }
+
         return [
             'published' => $doPublish,
             'success' => $success,
diff --git a/tests/php/Publisher/FilesystemPublisherTest.php b/tests/php/Publisher/FilesystemPublisherTest.php
index 486b3b16..c902e29a 100644
--- a/tests/php/Publisher/FilesystemPublisherTest.php
+++ b/tests/php/Publisher/FilesystemPublisherTest.php
@@ -268,6 +268,17 @@ public function testErrorPageWhenPHP(): void
         $this->assertSame(404, $phpCacheConfig['responseCode']);
     }
 
+    public function testNoPublishOnDisallowedResponseCode(): void
+    {
+        $this->logOut();
+
+        Config::modify()->set(FilesystemPublisher::class, 'disallowed_status_codes', [404]);
+
+        $this->fsp->publishURL('page_not_exists', true);
+        $this->assertFileDoesNotExist($this->fsp->getDestPath() . 'page_not_exists.html');
+        $this->assertFileDoesNotExist($this->fsp->getDestPath() . 'page_not_exists.php');
+    }
+
     public function testRedirectorPageWhenPHP(): void
     {
         $redirectorPage = RedirectorPage::create();