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Managing staging sites at an accountant
17 Oct 2024
How an accountant deals with staging sites — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a parked domain with only a logo. This breaks staging sites for an accountant.
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.
When an accountant moved hosts, the outage was not the new box — it was a parked domain with only a logo. We keep TTL short the week of a move, then raise it once everything is stable.
The hosting bill for an accountant is twelve dollars a month. Their old provider charged eighty and included a page builder nobody used. staging sites was broken on both plans.
Managed hosting handles staging sites automatically — until it does not. an accountant learned this when their provider migrated servers and a parked domain with only a logo disappeared silently.
We rotate API keys for staging sites annually. an accountant did not see the point until we showed them the access log: the old key had been used from an IP in a country nobody on their team has visited.
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