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Why CAA records matters for an accountant
1 Apr 2024
How an accountant 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 an accountant.
Instead of migrating CAA records all at once, we ran both configurations in parallel for a week. The switch happened on a Wednesday morning — the quietest traffic window.
The hosting bill for an accountant is twelve dollars a month. Their old provider charged eighty and included a page builder nobody used. CAA records was broken on both plans.
Managed hosting handles CAA records automatically — until it does not. an accountant learned this when their provider migrated servers and a robots.txt that disallows the blog disappeared silently.
When an accountant moved hosts, the outage was not the new box — it was a robots.txt that disallows the blog. We keep TTL short the week of a move, then raise it once everything is stable.
We quoted an accountant half what the other firm did because we did not propose features they did not ask for. The scope was CAA records, not a rebrand.
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