SECU
Website security and maintenance
Bots sweep the web around the clock and walk in through vulnerabilities published long ago and left open. They did not single you out: they try every door, all the time.
What happens to an unattended website
The scenario is almost always the same. A vulnerability is published, a fix is released, and automated programs go hunting for sites that never applied it. A few weeks later, the site serves pages it never wrote, or sends your visitors somewhere else.
The real cost is not the repair: it is the time nobody noticed, and the trust you then have to rebuild with search engines and customers alike.
- Updates applied continuously, not once a year
- Automated backups, with a tested restore
- Uptime monitoring and immediate alerting
- Security fixes applied without waiting
- A written quota of changes, known in advance
A backup is only worth its restore
Almost everyone backs up. Far fewer have ever restored a backup to check that it works. Yet that is the only test that counts, and when it has never been run you find out at the worst possible moment.
What maintenance covers, and what it does not
Maintenance covers updates, backups, monitoring and a written quota of changes. It never covers feature work, content production or search optimisation: those are priced separately, and saying so up front avoids misunderstandings.
Frequently asked questions
Is a small website really targeted by attacks?
Yes, precisely because it is not targeted personally. The programs scanning the web look for a vulnerable version, not a particular company: the size of your business makes you neither interesting nor invisible.
Does maintenance require a commitment?
No. It is optional, with no commitment period, and you leave with your site if you stop it. A contract that holds you is not maintenance, it is captivity.
What happens if the site goes down on a Sunday?
Monitoring does not read a calendar: downtime triggers an alert whatever the day. Those moments are exactly why monitoring exists, since nobody is watching their own site on a Sunday morning.
Further reading
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