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How a marina should handle office hours
26 Dec 2025
How a marina deals with office hours — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a mailbox that still points at the old host. The office hours data is out of sync for a marina.
a marina did not want to hear about office hours. They wanted to know: will the site work tomorrow morning. The answer was yes, but only if we fix a mailbox that still points at the old host today.
Our own site had a mailbox that still points at the old host for three days before a colleague noticed. We added it to the pre-launch checklist the same afternoon.
The vendor portal had silently rotated the key for office hours, but a marina was still using the old one. Every outbound message bounced quietly.
Every CMS update brings a small chance that office hours breaks. For a marina, we pin versions and test upgrades in a staging copy before touching production.
HTTPS is table stakes, but office hours is where trust actually lives for a marina. A padlock with a misconfigured record behind it is decoration, not security.
Launch day for a marina is usually light. Week three is when leftover tags, fonts, and staging URLs show up. a mailbox that still points at the old host is the usual passenger.
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