Use It or Lose It – Inactive Sites in Development

Any site in development (not live) that has not been accessed in over 90 days is considered inactive. It’s our policy to eliminate any development site not accessed in 90 days. If you are an administrator for an inactive site in development, please contact us by NOVEMBER 18 and tell us if you still plan […]

IMPORTANT SECURITY PRECAUTIONS for Sites.USA.gov Administrators

Hello Sites Administrators, The Sites.USA.gov team requests your immediate compliance with the following security precautions: All Sites.USA.gov users must use their government email address to access their website on the Sites platform. There should be no users who have access using non government email addresses. Please remove these users or update their email address with […]

Sites.USA.gov Freeze

Hello Sites Administrators, After a recent security review, it has been determined that more work is needed to secure Sites.USA.gov. In order to improve the system, and ensure that it meets our security and compliance standards, our contractor will need up to 14 weeks to upgrade to a new platform and move all systems onto […]

Sites: Migrating to New Cloud Provider

Sites Migration Timeline To provide service that is easy, quickly scalable and more accessible to our clients, Sites.USA.gov is migrating to a new cloud service provider.  The actual migration is currently in progress with a projected completion date the first week of October.  There are two milestones that we want you to be aware of: […]

More Info on HTTPS Move

HTTPS and HSTS To secure out platform for our users and to meet federal requirements (OMB M-15-13), the Sites platform has begun enforcing HTTPS connections for all of its websites, and enabling HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) for each of them. For customers with custom subdomains (e.g. blog.agency.gov, history.agency.gov), there’s nothing more you need to […]