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Why holiday hours matters for a marina
24 Apr 2024
How a marina deals with holiday hours — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: three unused font weights. The holiday hours data is out of sync for a marina.
Half the meeting with a marina was explaining what holiday hours is. The other half was agreeing that three unused font weights should have been fixed a year ago.
Our own site had three unused font weights for three days before a colleague noticed. We added it to the pre-launch checklist the same afternoon.
Most providers let you export holiday hours 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.
A friend of the owner at a marina had set up holiday hours years ago. When we audited, the config still pointed at a server they stopped paying for in 2024.
Every technical decision for a marina comes back to one question: does this help the person looking at the site right now? If holiday hours is invisible to that person, it is working.
The registrar dashboard crashed twice while we were fixing holiday hours for a marina. We filed a ticket; they replied four days later with a template answer.
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