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Setting up CMS logins for a marina
16 Feb 2024
How a marina deals with CMS logins — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a form that emails a shared inbox. This breaks CMS logins for a marina.
The hosting bill for a marina is twelve dollars a month. Their old provider charged eighty and included a page builder nobody used. CMS logins was broken on both plans.
Automate CMS logins if you can. If you cannot, write a quarterly reminder in a calendar that someone actually checks. a form that emails a shared inbox is what happens when nobody does either.
The owner at a marina asked why CMS logins matters. We showed them the error page their customers see when it breaks. That ended the conversation.
The chain of trust for CMS logins starts at the registrar. If the registrar account uses an email nobody reads, every downstream fix is temporary.
The best CMS logins setup is the one nobody has to think about. For a marina, that means auto-renew, auto-redirect, and a monitoring ping every four hours.
After fixing CMS logins, we added a monitoring alert. If the record changes or the certificate approaches expiry, both we and a marina get an email. No surprises.
We moved CMS logins for a marina to a provider that supports DNSSEC. It added five minutes to the migration and closed a class of attacks they did not even know about.
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