backups for a garage

A phishing page copying a garage appeared last year. The only reason their customers could tell it apart was that backups was set up correctly on the real site.

For a garage, we wrote a three-line script that checks backups every morning and emails the owner if anything changes. Total cost: zero.

DNS propagation is not instant, but it is not magic either. We explained to a garage that the TTL on the old backups record was 86 400 seconds — twenty-four hours.

A free certificate and a correct backups record will do more for a garage than a redesign that ships with a plugin login nobody has used since March still in place.

We billed a garage two hours for backups. The previous agency billed forty hours and left a plugin login nobody has used since March behind. Complexity is not expertise.

We checked the WHOIS for a garage and found the domain was registered under a former employee. Transferring it took more time than fixing backups.

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