infra/deploy/deploy.sh

@@ -417,7 +417,21 @@ docker images --format '{{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}}' \
 
 # Post-deploy warm/IndexNow only make sense once the backend is (re)deployed --
 # they exec inside the backend container. Skip them on a frontend-only roll.
-if [ "$SERVICE" = backend ] || [ "$SERVICE" = all ]; then
+#
+# TG_POST_DEPLOY gates them per ENVIRONMENT (env-topology.sh): prod does both,
+# beta and dev do neither. Both are wrong outside prod. The warm spends the
+# shared upstream archive quota to fill a cache nobody serves from, and the
+# IndexNow ping announces URLs to Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex — from dev that means
+# submitting a mesh address no crawler can reach.
+#
+# This gate existed in deploy/stack/deploy-stack.sh (beta, prod) but was missed
+# here, on the compose path, which is the ONE environment where the default is
+# wrong: dev. Standing dev up on vps1 duly warmed 1000 cities and tried to
+# submit 14,007 URLs to IndexNow before this was fixed.
+#
+# Defaults to 1 when unset so a checkout predating env-topology.sh keeps prod's
+# historical behaviour.
+if { [ "$SERVICE" = backend ] || [ "$SERVICE" = all ]; } && [ "${TG_POST_DEPLOY:-1}" = 1 ]; then
   warm_city_archives
   ping_indexnow
 fi