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Why backups matters for a language school
16 Feb 2024
How a language school deals with backups — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: three unused font weights. This breaks backups for a language school.
Every CMS update brings a small chance that backups breaks. For a language school, we pin versions and test upgrades in a staging copy before touching production.
Automate backups if you can. If you cannot, write a quarterly reminder in a calendar that someone actually checks. three unused font weights is what happens when nobody does either.
There is a difference between a site that loads and a site that works. backups is part of the second category for a language school.
Related work on this site follows the same principle: one job, a real inbox, no theatre. a language school did not need four analytics dashboards to know that Tuesdays are slow.
If you only touch backups once a year, a dashboard is extra risk. Files, a mailbox you read, and a person who still answers will outlast any SaaS control panel.
After fixing backups, we added a monitoring alert. If the record changes or the certificate approaches expiry, both we and a language school get an email. No surprises.
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