Website maintenance involves keeping your website up to date and functioning, but also keeping your server up to date and fully functional. Server maintenance involves a number of factors one of which is ensuring that the PHP server is kept up to date. If this is not maintained, you will find that one day, you will go to your site and the only thing that will display in your browser will be a fatal error with some sort of code displayed. You will then have to troubleshoot and work out if the error has been caused by the PHP server, or is it being generated from something else.

The second part of website maintenance, is actually keeping the website up to date and fully functional. The underlying CMS will need updating fairly frequently and this can cause issues and requires a strategy of what to do if it does go wrong. There are also plugins and addons that are provided from 3rd party developers installed, and these also could cause issues or even conflicts with other developers’ plugins and addons and can require troubleshooting to work out where the problem is and how to fix it. There are several things that can be done to minimise issues from taking backups to creating staging sites to test the changes before applying these to the live site.

We offer a full maintenance package for all of our hosting websites where we will look after all server and site maintenance, updates and upgrades of your site. We will take backups and utilize staging sites to ensure that your live site will remain fully functional and up to date.