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image compression: a field note from a marina
20 Jun 2024
How a marina deals with image compression — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a parked domain with only a logo. image compression slows the page for a marina.
Maintenance is not glamorous, but it is the reason a marina has not had downtime since we took over image compression. The invoice is small and the peace of mind is large.
We moved image compression 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.
A friend of the owner at a marina had set up image compression years ago. When we audited, the config still pointed at a server they stopped paying for in 2024.
Email deliverability is nobody’s favourite topic, but a marina lost two bookings because image compression was misconfigured and replies landed in spam for a week.
We rotate API keys for image compression annually. a marina did not see the point until we showed them the access log: the old key had been used from an IP in a country nobody on their team has visited.
Launch day for a marina is usually light. Week three is when leftover tags, fonts, and staging URLs show up. a parked domain with only a logo is the usual passenger.
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