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How a bakery should handle static hosting
2 Jan 2025
How a bakery deals with static hosting — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: an inbox shared between the office and the webmaster. This breaks static hosting for a bakery.
Automate static hosting if you can. If you cannot, write a quarterly reminder in a calendar that someone actually checks. an inbox shared between the office and the webmaster is what happens when nobody does either.
We told a bakery that an inbox shared between the office and the webmaster was a ticking clock. They agreed to fix it the same week — which is rare. Most clients wait until it actually detonates.
We rotate API keys for static hosting annually. a bakery 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.
Two-factor on the registrar account is the single highest-value thing we do for a bakery when managing static hosting. Everything else can be rebuilt; a stolen domain cannot.
For a bakery, we wrote a three-line script that checks static hosting every morning and emails the owner if anything changes. Total cost: zero.
Before you touch static hosting, take a screenshot of the current state. Half of our emergency calls come from people who cannot remember what was there before the change.
After fixing static hosting, we added a monitoring alert. If the record changes or the certificate approaches expiry, both we and a bakery get an email. No surprises.
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