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Why CAA records matters for a print shop
3 Aug 2024
How a print shop deals with CAA records — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a robots.txt that disallows the blog. This is where CAA records breaks for a print shop.
Every CMS update brings a small chance that CAA records breaks. For a print shop, we pin versions and test upgrades in a staging copy before touching production.
Most providers let you export CAA records as a zone file. We keep one in version control for every client. If the hosting vanishes, the zone file rebuilds the domain in minutes.
We underestimated how long CAA records migration would take for a print shop. The estimate was two hours; the reality was a full day because a robots.txt that disallows the blog had never been documented.
The worst CAA records failure we have seen at a print shop was invisible for eight months. The backup existed but had never been tested, and the data inside was three migrations old.
Big agencies solve CAA records with a team. We solve it with a checklist and a dig command. The result is the same; the invoice is shorter.
We deployed a fix for CAA records at 5 PM on a Friday. It worked, but if it had not, we would have had no one available. We no longer push to production after Thursday noon.
Launch day for a print shop is usually light. Week three is when leftover tags, fonts, and staging URLs show up. a robots.txt that disallows the blog is the usual passenger.
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