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Why www redirects matters for a driving school
6 Jul 2024
How a driving school deals with www redirects — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: nameservers that still list a freelancer. This is where www redirects breaks for a driving school.
A phishing page copying a driving school appeared last year. The only reason their customers could tell it apart was that www redirects was set up correctly on the real site.
We keep a playbook for www redirects. Step one is always the same: pull the live record with dig, compare it to what the admin panel shows, and fix the mismatch.
For a driving school, the boring path won: HTTPS, a backup that we have restored once on purpose, and a calendar reminder for www redirects.
The most expensive outage for a driving school was not a hack — it was nameservers that still list a freelancer. Nobody attacked anything. The config just drifted.
The owner at a driving school asked why www redirects matters. We showed them the error page their customers see when it breaks. That ended the conversation.
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