Website maintenance services for sites that earn money

What website maintenance covers

A website is software, and software ages. Plugins, themes, apps and server versions all ship updates, and some of those updates fix security holes. Maintenance means someone applies them in a safe order and checks that nothing broke.

• Core, theme and plugin or app updates, applied on a staging copy first
• Daily backups, with a restore test every month
• Uptime monitoring and a test of forms, checkout or booking
• Malware and login-attempt scanning
• Broken link, 404 and redirect checks
• Speed checks on your main templates
• A set number of small content or layout edits

Who needs it, and who does not

You need it if your site runs on WordPress, WooCommerce, or a Shopify store with several apps, and nobody on your team owns updates. You also need it if the site takes orders, bookings or leads, because a silent failure there costs money before anyone notices.

You may not need it if you have a small static brochure site with no plugins and no forms, or if an in-house developer already owns releases. In that case a yearly health check is enough, and we will say so.

How we decide what to update and when

Not every update carries the same risk. We sort them before touching anything, and the table shows the rule we apply.

The point of the table is that urgent does not mean immediate. A security patch moves fast. A major payment plugin update waits for a quiet window and a full test.

Worked example: a checkout update that fails

This is the kind of case the process exists for. A store receives a scheduled update to its payment plugin.

1. Backup and stagingA fresh backup is taken and the update is applied to the staging copy, not the live store.
2. Test orderA full test order is placed on staging. The payment step fails to load.
3. Hold the releaseThe update is not released to the live store. Customers never see the fault.
4. Find the causeWe reproduce the fault and trace it to a conflict with a caching rule that was written for the older plugin version.
5. Fix and releaseWe correct the rule, repeat the test order, and release in your lowest-traffic window. The report names the cause and the fix.

If a fault does appear on the live site, the monitoring check fails first, and the restore from the pre-update backup is the next step.

The routine, week by week

The quarterly plugin audit asks one question of each plugin or app: what would break if we removed it? Anything with no clear answer becomes a removal candidate, because every extra plugin is extra surface to update and secure.

Starting, timeline and reporting

1. Access and inventoryYou grant admin and hosting access. We list every plugin, app, integration and scheduled job, and note which are unmaintained.
2. Baseline checkWe record speed, security findings, broken links and any errors in your Google Search Console.
3. Staging and monitoringWe set up the staging copy, backups and monitors. This usually takes the first week or two.
4. First cycleWe run one full monthly cycle and send the first report. From then on the routine above runs without you asking.

The monthly report lists updates applied, backup and restore results, uptime, issues found and fixed, and anything we recommend you decide on. Search-related items come from your own Search Console. We do not publish a maintenance case study, so we are not going to dress one up here. If you want to see how we build, the Asian Packaging catalog site and the A'YUCO store show the kinds of sites that need this care.