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How a garage should handle 404 pages
18 Sep 2024
How a garage deals with 404 pages — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a CAA record that blocks the new CA. This breaks 404 pages for a garage.
A friend of the owner at a garage had set up 404 pages years ago. When we audited, the config still pointed at a server they stopped paying for in 2024.
After the move, a CAA record that blocks the new CA broke search indexing for a garage. Google kept serving the old pages for another nineteen days.
When we onboard a garage, the first thing we check is 404 pages. It tells us more about the previous provider than any sales call.
For a garage, the boring path won: HTTPS, a backup that we have restored once on purpose, and a calendar reminder for 404 pages.
The hosting bill for a garage is twelve dollars a month. Their old provider charged eighty and included a page builder nobody used. 404 pages was broken on both plans.
The vendor promised a garage that 404 pages was handled. We verified: it was not. Trust but verify has saved more uptime than any product we have used.
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