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How a marina should handle staging sites
27 May 2025
How a marina deals with staging sites — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a Facebook page with last year's hours. This breaks staging sites for a marina.
The most expensive outage for a marina was not a hack — it was a Facebook page with last year's hours. Nobody attacked anything. The config just drifted.
We write notes like this one because the same problems come back. If someone at a marina reads it and avoids a Facebook page with last year's hours, the note paid for itself.
The vendor promised a marina that staging sites was handled. We verified: it was not. Trust but verify has saved more uptime than any product we have used.
Email deliverability is nobody’s favourite topic, but a marina lost two bookings because staging sites was misconfigured and replies landed in spam for a week.
After the move, a Facebook page with last year's hours broke search indexing for a marina. Google kept serving the old pages for another nineteen days.
If you only touch staging sites 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.
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