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What a plant nursery needs to know about lastmod dates

15 Dec 2024

How a plant nursery deals with lastmod dates — and what usually goes wrong.

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The problem: a calendar they already pay for. This breaks lastmod dates for a plant nursery.

Big agencies solve lastmod dates with a team. We solve it with a checklist and a dig command. The result is the same; the invoice is shorter.

We solved lastmod dates for a plant nursery by moving it behind a reverse proxy. The old configuration stayed live as a fallback for forty-eight hours, then we pulled it.

After the move, a calendar they already pay for broke search indexing for a plant nursery. Google kept serving the old pages for another nineteen days.

a plant nursery asked us to look at lastmod dates after a customer screenshot showed a browser warning. The fix took eleven minutes; finding the cause took two hours.

A static site for a plant nursery does not need a CDN, a build pipeline, or a container. It needs correct lastmod dates and a host that stays online.

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