Website maintenance
Updates, backups and a check every few minutes that the site is up, with SitePing, the monitoring service I wrote.
What's included
- every week I update WordPress or Joomla, the theme and the plugins, and test the site after the update;
- I back up the site every day, and at least once every six months I restore a backup as a test;
- I watch the site with SitePing and step in when something breaks;
- I let you know if WordPress, Joomla or a plugin stops getting security fixes, and what I'd do about it.
With SitePing
SitePing is the monitoring service I wrote. It checks every 1 or 5 minutes that the site responds, and once a day the SSL certificate, domain expiry, DNS records and blacklists. Inside the site it sees admin logins, plugins installed or deactivated, and files that differ from the official version. Usually, when something breaks, I know before you do.
If the site goes down at night
With 24/7 cover I get it back up at any hour. On my servers, maintenance is the advanced hosting plan; the plans and the 24/7 cover are explained in Servers and hosting.
Problems I often solve
Slow WordPress site: I find what's dragging it down
The page stays blank for a few seconds, the admin area crawls, and PageSpeed shows red numbers. I measure where the time goes and fix it, starting with the biggest cause.
Swiss FADP and your website: cookies, forms and outside services
The revised Swiss Data Protection Act has applied since 1 September 2023, with fines of up to CHF 250,000 falling on individuals. I check what your site really loads, which data leaves it and for which countries, then fix cookies and forms.