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Setting up www redirects for an accountant
28 Feb 2026
How an accountant deals with www redirects — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a mailbox that still points at the old host. This is where www redirects breaks for an accountant.
Maintenance is not glamorous, but it is the reason an accountant has not had downtime since we took over www redirects. The invoice is small and the peace of mind is large.
We found a mailbox that still points at the old host during a routine check of www redirects. The site had been leaking referrer data for six weeks before anyone noticed.
an accountant asked us to look at www redirects after a customer screenshot showed a browser warning. The fix took eleven minutes; finding the cause took two hours.
Automate www redirects if you can. If you cannot, write a quarterly reminder in a calendar that someone actually checks. a mailbox that still points at the old host is what happens when nobody does either.
Managed hosting handles www redirects automatically — until it does not. an accountant learned this when their provider migrated servers and a mailbox that still points at the old host disappeared silently.
A phishing page copying an accountant appeared last year. The only reason their customers could tell it apart was that www redirects was set up correctly on the real site.
After fixing www redirects, we added a monitoring alert. If the record changes or the certificate approaches expiry, both we and an accountant get an email. No surprises.
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