Keeping your software up-to-date and secure is vital to a healthy website. We make sure your site stays up and running, through thick and thin.
WordPress is the most popular content management systems on the planet, by far. With a huge ecosystem of developers and development going on both directly with the CRM itself and with its thousands of themes and plugins, updates need to be made regularly to keep up.
Why bother with updates? First and most obviously, you get access to the latest features of the software. Second, over time, hackers find exploits and weaknesses within any system, which eventually falls back on the developers to patch; not running updates will leave these vulnerabilities unpatched open to bad actors. Third, while you may not be keeping things up-to-date, the rest of the world is. Websites don’t exist in a vacuum. They depend on server software to house them, data centres to host the servers, web browsers to download and interpret their code and so on. Try opening a modern website on an early 2000’s version of explorer to see what happens when these elements lose touch with each other! Or you could just do it for fun.
In addition to hosting your website, we can take care of these updates, keeping your website up-to-date, backed-up and secure.
Benefits of WordPress Maintenance
- WordPress Core and Plugin updates
We keep all of the software on your website manually up-to-date, on a weekly schedule. This way, if any plugin updates cause a conflict and break the site, we’ll know about it and be able to act quickly to fix the issue. - Automatic, daily backups
We automatically back up your website files and database every day. This way, if your site is hacked or in any way compromised, we”ll be able to roll it back to an earlier version. - Free repair in the event of a hack
If your site is hacked or breaks, due to a plugin update or conflict for example, we will fix it for you at no extra cost. If we’re unable to fix it or recover a backup, we’ll build you a new website for free. - Half price on all ad hoc development work
For customers on a hosting and maintenance contract, we perform extra design and development work at £45 +VAT per hour, instead of the usual £90 +VAT. This is because, through performing ongoing maintenance, we will be more familiar with your website and able to take precautionary steps in advance of any major work, eg. taking backups. - Monthly reporting
We send you a detailed report of your updates and backups every month. We can also include SERP tracking against specified keywords, uptime and plenty more in this report.
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