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image compression: a field note from a small hotel
24 Apr 2024
How a small hotel deals with image compression — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a Facebook page with last year's hours. image compression slows the page for a small hotel.
Early on we tried to automate image compression for a small hotel with a cron job. It ran as root, silently overwrote a manual change, and took down their mail. Lesson learned.
You do not need a status page if you have never gone down. a small hotel is on month fourteen of zero downtime, and the secret is boring: correct image compression and a host that does not oversell.
If you only touch image compression once a year, a dashboard is extra risk. Files, a mailbox you read, and a person who still answers will outlast any SaaS control panel.
There is a difference between a site that loads and a site that works. image compression is part of the second category for a small hotel.
The job started when a small hotel realised their image compression had been wrong for months. Nobody noticed because the site still loaded.
A form that collects data for a small hotel should say where the message goes. Nine fields and a captcha on a quiet Tuesday will cost you the person who actually wanted to pay.
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