Keeping your website updated with the latest WordPress versions and ensuring your theme is current reduces the risk of hacks or malicious attacks. Taking these essential precautions also helps protect your customers’ personal data, ensuring robust security for your site.
Why do I need to regularly update my website?
Regularly updating your WordPress website and its plugins is crucial for several reasons:
- Security: Outdated software, including WordPress core files and plugins, can contain vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit to gain unauthorized access to your website. Developers often release updates to patch these vulnerabilities and strengthen security measures.
- Performance: Updates often include performance improvements, bug fixes, and optimisations that enhance your website's speed and overall performance. By keeping your website and plugins up to date, you ensure a smooth user experience for your visitors.
- Compatibility: New updates may include compatibility fixes to ensure that your website functions correctly with the latest versions of web browsers, server software, and other technologies. This helps prevent issues such as layout errors or broken functionality on different devices or platforms.
- New Features: Updates may introduce new features, functionalities, or improvements to existing ones. By staying updated, you can take advantage of these enhancements to enhance your website's capabilities and better serve your audience.
- Support: As software evolves, developers may discontinue support for older versions, focusing their resources on maintaining the latest releases. By keeping your WordPress website and plugins up to date, you ensure access to ongoing support and assistance from developers and the WordPress community.
Our Maintenance packages are offered so it leaves you to concentrate on your business and not worry about your website. All you need to do is decide on which plan is right for your business and whether this is your time or cost…or both.
SIMPLICITY BASIC
£30 +vat per month
- Website Hosting - 6144 MB RAM / 4 CPU cores / Unlimited bandwidth
- 1 Email Addresses
- SSL Certificate
NOT INCLUDED: Support, maintenance, backup & monitoring.
Additional charges
- Small changes (Up to 30 mins): £30 +vat
- Hourly Website Development charged at £55 /hr +vat
- Project over 8 hours will require separate quotation
Note: Not available for websites of 5 pages or more
SIMPLICITY LITE
£45 +vat per month
- Website Hosting - 6144 MB RAM / 4 CPU cores / Unlimited bandwidth
- Up to 3 Email Address
- SSL Certificate
- Monthly maintenance, backup & monitoring
- Content changes inc. amendments, testing and uploading are not included.
Additional charges
- Small changes (Up to 30 mins): £30 +vat
- Hourly Website Development charged at £55 /hr +vat
- Project over 8 hours will require separate quotation
SIMPLICITY PLUS
£75 +vat per month
- Website Hosting - 6144 MB RAM / 4 CPU cores / Unlimited bandwidth
- Up to 5 Email Address
- SSL Certificate
- Monthly maintenance, backup & monitoring
- 1 Hour per month content changes/updates
- Small changes (Up to 30 mins): £30 +vat
- Further hours charged at £55 /hr +vat
- Larger projects over 8 hours will require separate quotation
- E-commerce shop content changes POA
Note: All Plans are for guidance only and are subject to change and evaluation due to all websites individual architecture.
What is a website maintenance service?
What is covered by a website maintenance package?
Which platforms can website maintenance be performed on?
Website maintenance is performed across our preferred CMS, Wordpress. Over time code runs the risk of becoming vulnerable and at risk to hackers so all websites should have website maintenance performed on them. Also, some plugins and themes conflict and may bring your website down and offline. You should ALWAYS regularly perform website maintenance activities every week.
What does website maintenance include?
Website maintenance and support packages include many things related to improving the performance and security of your website.
Website maintenance often includes a basic security audit, a page speed audit, a plugin audit and a third-party script audit should you be running any third-party scripts. This will ensure everything is up to date and identify any potential vulnerabilities to be sorted. Many themes and plugins which need updating on a regular basis may also require a PHP update. This in itself may not be compliant with all the plugins or themes and needs careful updates.
What is the website maintenance process?
The website maintenance process is usually quite straight forward and often resulting in no down time for your website. The process first is often to take a backup of your website or push to your staging/development server should you have one. From there, the plugin upgrades are often done 1 by 1 and the site checked thoroughly to ensure no single plugin has caused an issue. Once everything is upgraded and tested your website is then pushed live which usually takes a minute or two depending on the size and is then running live without issues. As plugins are used throughout Wordpress and the nature of plugins means that they are mostly at risk to website failures.
Why is it important to do website maintenance?
Website maintenance is important because it not only helps offer a better user experience it also prevents any future downtime and can help prevent your website being hacked.
Should your plugins become outdated and not kept up to date then your website could become hacked or even hijacked resulting in damage to your brand as well as lost business opportunities.
Also, heavily customising themes and not updating them can cause update issues in the future when WordPress or the theme gets updated, leaving things not updated for years and then trying to update them can cause serious issues along the way so it is always best to have the latest plugin to ensure maximum compatibility.
How much does website maintenance cost?
Our website hosting & maintenance packages vary depending on the time required to maintain your website on a weekly or monthly basis.
If not on a set monthly plan, the bare bones maintenance tasks typically take 2-3 hours a month and you would expect to pay around £130+vat.
If you have other requirements above general technical maintenance to include general day to day things such as changing images changing text and adding new pages you may be looking at 10 hours for £500+vat per month.
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