Maintenance & Hosting
Maintenance
For those who want a less hands-on approach, here are some of the things we’ll do for you if you decide to have maintenance plan with us:
- Up to one hour of editing, revising, or creating new content on existing pages
- WordPress, theme and plugin updates
- Monthly malware check
- Bug fixes, determined on case-by-case basis
- Full back-up of website monthly
- Monthly report on all of the above
All of these tasks are very important to your website for many reasons. You want to edit, revise, create blogs, hyperlink new things to existing pages, etc. because those things are all effective for SEO.
It’s really important to keep WordPress, your theme and your plugins updated as they run most efficiently and quickly when they’re ran at their newest version. The somewhat tricky part about updating these things, though, is they can also cause issues. Sometimes plugin updates aren’t compatible with an older versions of another plugin, and that can sometimes wreak havoc on the look of your website. Each time we update anything on your website, as part of this agreement, we check to ensure the website is still functioning properly.
Malware checks are integral to keeping your website safe from being hacked. You really don’t want your website to get hacked because it takes a lot of work to get it working properly again after that. Keeping plugins and security settings updated, as well as running the malware checks will combat any potential hackers.
Website bugs can happen! When plugins decide not to work well together, or one just stops working for whatever reason, we can step in, take a look at what’s going on, and work on finding a solution. There are some cases where this may incur an additional fee depending on the bug, but we’ll always communicate that clearly to you up front after we’ve done some investigative work.
Backups are ideal simply because if there is a bug, hack issue, or simply, you made some changes to the site that you didn’t like and can’t undo, we can restore your website to its most recent backup, and it’ll look just the way it did on that date.
Perks of having a maintenance plan with us:
Exceptional customer service every time you reach out to us with an issue
Quick turn-around on requested changes
We do all the work, so you don’t have to
Your site will stay safe from hackers
Your site will stay updated
We keep you in the loop each month so you know what’s going on with your website
You’ll always have a backup of your website in the unlikely case something goes awry
Why host your website with us:
Exceptional customer service
Free SSL Certificates
We’ll work directly with the hosting company if necessary so you don’t have to
We know all the jargon associated with hosting and servers so you don’t need to
Competitive rates
Hosting
We have our own Virtual Private Server, so that we can host your website and only the other websites who purchase hosting with us. With many other hosting services, it’s a shared server, so your website sits on a server with many other websites that many other people control. In this situation, your site speed can decrease because you’re sharing little space with a lot of people. With us, your website is only hosted with the businesses we work with meaning we know each and every business who sits on our server while having fewer sites on the server.
One of the important things to rank your site in Google is to have a page that loads quickly and that is why our hosting is on a litespeed server instead of a slower apache server. A litespeed server works very well with divi wordpress sites as we use a speed plugin especially made for this type of server and it produces quick sites that rarely have conflicts with sites which is a huge problem with speed plugins.
We pride ourselves in offering the best customer service possible. When you host with us, we’ll always be your go-to for any issues you’re experiencing, and then we’ll do all the legwork for you to remedy the situation. Our fees are also very reasonable because we know not everyone wants to pay a ton for hosting when they’re already paying to get their website created in the first place.
Though we do recommend email hosting separately from the website hosting we do offer limited email accounts in our hosting plans. Some of the other companies we would recommend for emails are Office 365 or Gsuite.