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A practical look at image compression for a plumber
17 Apr 2025
How a plumber 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 plumber.
Launch day for a plumber 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.
We moved image compression for a plumber 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.
Managed hosting handles image compression automatically — until it does not. a plumber learned this when their provider migrated servers and a parked domain with only a logo disappeared silently.
Maintenance is not glamorous, but it is the reason a plumber has not had downtime since we took over image compression. The invoice is small and the peace of mind is large.
We keep a playbook for image compression. Step one is always the same: pull the live record with dig, compare it to what the admin panel shows, and fix the mismatch.
We once forgot to renew image compression for a weekend project and it took down a page that a plumber linked to from a print flyer. We now set auto-renew on everything.
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