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A practical look at lastmod dates for a language school
5 Feb 2025
How a language school deals with lastmod dates — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a PDF that sales cannot find. This breaks lastmod dates for a language school.
The most expensive outage for a language school was not a hack — it was a PDF that sales cannot find. Nobody attacked anything. The config just drifted.
Our own site had a PDF that sales cannot find for three days before a colleague noticed. We added it to the pre-launch checklist the same afternoon.
HTTPS is table stakes, but lastmod dates is where trust actually lives for a language school. A padlock with a misconfigured record behind it is decoration, not security.
Every CMS update brings a small chance that lastmod dates breaks. For a language school, we pin versions and test upgrades in a staging copy before touching production.
The vendor promised a language school that lastmod dates was handled. We verified: it was not. Trust but verify has saved more uptime than any product we have used.
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