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What a marina needs to know about lastmod dates
21 Dec 2024
How a marina deals with lastmod dates — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a 404 that still returns 200. This breaks lastmod dates for a marina.
After the move, a 404 that still returns 200 broke search indexing for a marina. Google kept serving the old pages for another nineteen days.
The vendor portal had silently rotated the key for lastmod dates, but a marina was still using the old one. Every outbound message bounced quietly.
The vendor promised a marina that lastmod dates was handled. We verified: it was not. Trust but verify has saved more uptime than any product we have used.
Related work on this site follows the same principle: one job, a real inbox, no theatre. a marina did not need four analytics dashboards to know that Tuesdays are slow.
When a marina asked for a quote on lastmod dates, we sent a one-paragraph email instead of a slide deck. They signed the same day.
Early on we tried to automate lastmod dates for a marina with a cron job. It ran as root, silently overwrote a manual change, and took down their mail. Lesson learned.
a marina did not want to hear about lastmod dates. They wanted to know: will the site work tomorrow morning. The answer was yes, but only if we fix a 404 that still returns 200 today.
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