It's an inevitability that every website needs technical maintenance
Your website is running on a computer, exposed to the Internet 24/7. Just like other computers it runs software which is what makes your website appear, and that software gets regular updates.
Do not put off these updates! Not only do they ensure that software is updated to secure it against the latest vulnerabilities on the Internet, but it usually brings new functionality and features which can help improve your site.
The nature of being constantly live on the Internet means that your website is constantly open to attack. Don't fool yourself that this is a person who's choosing sites - this is software, constantly on the lookout for new websites on the Internet and then instantly and repeatedly testing them for any vulnerabilities.
Why?
...to see if they can gain access to your site and use it to host its own software testing and attacking other sites.
You could spend time trying to do all the maintenance and security yourself, but it makes much more sense to use software to automate these processes doing them regularly and rapidly. In fact all of these maintenance tasks can be automated:
- Z Software Updates
- Z Content and Data Backups
- Z Site Security
- Z Hack Detection
- Z Broken Link Testing
- Z Content Change Testing
- Z Spelling and Grammar checks
- Z SSL Certificate Testing
- Z Uptime Monitoring
- Z Domain Name Testing and Renewals
Free Guide to Keep Your Website Safe
It's always a balance between spending your own time doing things or getting somebody or some software to do it for you. But a lot of people forget how important their website is to their business and how much more difficult it would be not to have it working.
If the budget doesn't stretch to getting an agency's care plan to doing these tasks for you, make sure you're well informed of what needs to be done and put a schedule in your diary to make sure these things are done regularly.
