Websites age like cars, not like paintings. The owner who “finished” their site two years ago is driving without oil changes \u2014 everything works until the day it expensively doesn’t. Here’s what maintenance actually includes, so you know what you’re buying or skipping.<\/p>\n
WordPress core, themes and plugins patch vulnerabilities constantly; unapplied updates are open windows. Add malware scanning and a firewall, and the boring truth: most hacked small-business sites were compromised through a plugin unupdated for months \u2014 automated attacks don’t care how small you are.<\/p>\n
Not “the hosting probably does something” \u2014 verified, offsite, restorable backups, tested by actually restoring one. The difference between a bad morning and a lost business is whether restore was rehearsed.<\/p>\n
Sites slow down gradually: databases bloat, images accumulate, plugins stack. Quarterly speed checks catch the drift the owner never notices \u2014 because it happened one week at a time.<\/p>\n
A broken form discovered by monitoring beats one discovered by a month of silent lost enquiries. Link checks, form tests, uptime alerts \u2014 maintenance is mostly noticing early.<\/p>\n
For a small business site, maintenance runs a modest monthly fee \u2014 against which a single emergency cleanup, rebuilt-from-nothing weekend, or month of dead contact forms is dramatically more expensive. We offer maintenance with hosting included<\/a>; ask what your site’s current risk list looks like<\/a> \u2014 we’ll audit before we quote.<\/p>\n Security updates, verified backups, malware scanning, speed checks and monitoring that catches small breaks early.<\/p> <\/div> Nothing \u2014 until a plugin vulnerability, a silent form failure or a slow decay costs far more than the maintenance would have.<\/p> <\/div> Through outdated plugins \u2014 automated attacks scan for known holes and don't care how small the site is.<\/p> <\/div> Continuously or daily, stored offsite, and tested by actually restoring \u2014 untested backups are hopes, not backups.<\/p> <\/div> Databases bloat, images pile up, plugins stack \u2014 drift is invisible weekly and dramatic yearly.<\/p> <\/div> A modest monthly fee \u2014 one emergency cleanup or a month of dead contact forms costs multiples of a year of care.<\/p> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n\n\n\nFrequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n\n