You stop hearing about outages from customers
Monitoring warns beforehand, not after. That is the difference between fixing and apologising.
Website upkeep
Your site stays updated, backed up and watched, without you thinking about it.
Updates, backups and monitoring are done regularly. You are told when something calls for a decision — not at every detail.
Where you are
Your site runs. Nobody looks after it.
- You do not know when it was last updated.
- You have never checked whether your backups work.
- It went down at a weekend and you heard about it from a customer.
- Your provider has not answered for months.
- You see warning messages without knowing whether they are serious.
- You discover your certificate expired when the browser shows a warning.
A website is not a finished object. It rests on components that keep changing, and that eventually break if nobody follows them. The question is not whether a problem will occur, but who will notice it first.
What changes
What regular upkeep avoids.
Your backups actually exist
A backup never restored is not a backup. We test them.
Known holes get closed
Most hacked sites are hacked through a hole fixed months earlier and never applied.
You know what was done
A readable report, without jargon, rather than an invoice with no explanation.
Your site does not slow down over time
Images pile up, the database grows: without upkeep, everything gets slow.
You have someone to call
The day something breaks, knowing who to write to beats looking for someone.
What we do
The actual work, in three families.
Upkeep is invisible when done well. Here is what it covers in practice.
Keeping current
- Technical updates
- The site's components follow their versions, tested before being applied.
- Security fixes
- Applied as a priority when a known hole affects your site.
- Security certificate
- Renewed before it expires, without you having to think about it.
- Browser compatibility
- What worked last year does not always work this year.
Protecting
- Regular backups
- Files and data, kept somewhere other than the site's own server.
- Tested restores
- We check a backup genuinely goes back in place — many never do.
- Availability monitoring
- An automatic check warns when the site stops responding.
- Access control
- Who can log into the admin area, and with what rights.
Following
- Loading speed
- Measured regularly: a slow decline does not show day to day.
- Broken links
- Pages that no longer lead anywhere, caught before your visitors find them.
- Periodic cleanup
- Unused files, old versions, obsolete data.
- Written report
- What was done, what was spotted, what calls for a decision from you.
How we work
We test the backups rather than counting them.
Many upkeep contracts advertise daily backups without ever restoring one. A backup nobody has tried to put back is an assumption, not a protection.
Before / after
From a site you find broken to a site you do not have to watch.
The change does not show. That is the point: incidents handled before they are visible leave no trace for your visitors.
What you receive
What gets done, and what you see of it.
The exact content of the engagement is in the quote, item by item.
- Technical updates applied after checking
- Backups kept somewhere other than the site's own server
- At least one tested restore per year, to prove they work
- Automatic monitoring that warns when the site stops responding
- Renewal of the security certificate
- A periodic report written in plain language
- Security fixes applied as a priority
- A yearly review of the site's condition and what would deserve changing
Upkeep covers keeping things running, not changes: adding a page, altering a feature or rebuilding the site are separate work, quoted separately. The boundary is written into the contract, to avoid the misunderstanding.
How it goes
Four steps, and what we need from you at each one.
- 01Take overWe establish the site's current state: components, backups, access. You hand us your credentials.
- 02Bring up to dateWhat is behind gets dealt with first. That is often the bulk of the work, and is quoted separately.
- 03MaintainUpdates, backups and monitoring happen at the agreed rhythm. You have nothing to do.
- 04ReportA periodic report says what was done and what needs your decision. You choose.
Related expertise
The identity carries through every interface.
One visual system, carried from website to application.
Our work
A well-built site is easier to maintain.
The sites we deliver are built to last: fewer components, fewer dependencies, fewer things that break.
See the work
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They launched their project — here's what they say
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Budget and timing
What pushes a quote up or down.
What weighs: how the site is built — a site with many components takes more following than a simple one — whether there is a shop or a customer area, how often backups run, and the starting condition. That last point is decisive: taking over a site left unattended for three years calls for bringing it up to date, quoted separately from routine upkeep. We establish that before you commit.
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Our commitments
What you can count on.
- Backups are tested, not merely taken
- The report says what was done, in plain language
- The boundary between upkeep and changes is written into the contract
- You keep your access: upkeep does not dispossess you of your site
- No availability figure is promised: it depends on a host, not on us
- No absolute security is promised: it does not exist, and claiming it would be lying
Frequently asked
What people ask before getting started.
Keeping things running: updates, backups, monitoring, security fixes and reporting. What is not covered: changes. Adding a page, altering a feature, redoing the design are separate work. That boundary is written into the contract, item by item — it is the most frequent source of misunderstanding with this kind of engagement.
Monitoring alerts us, and we act. How fast depends on what the contract says and on the nature of the problem: an update to roll back is quick, an outage at your host does not depend on us. We do not promise a fixed response time without writing it into a contract, because a stated time with no commitment behind it is worth nothing.
Yes, in most cases. We first check it allows what is needed: file access, backups, current versions. Some cheap hosting makes upkeep impossible or very costly — if that is the case, we tell you beforehand, with the options.
Rarely. Bringing it up to date is a job in its own right though, heavier than routine upkeep: accumulated updates cannot be applied all at once without risk. We establish the site's condition, quote the catch-up separately, and upkeep starts afterwards. So you know what you are paying for, and why.
Yes, and many of our clients do. It is complementary: you manage your content, we manage the technical side. Just tell us about significant changes, so we do not mistake them for an incident. If what you are really after is control of your own content, that is a different service.
No security is absolute, and anyone claiming otherwise is mistaken or misleading you. What upkeep does: apply known fixes, limit access, and keep tested backups. The vast majority of hacked sites are hacked through a hole fixed months earlier. That is where the real risk sits, and that is what we address.
The terms are in the contract, and we keep them deliberately simple. On stopping, you keep your access, your backups and your site: nothing is held back. An upkeep provider who makes leaving difficult is a provider worth leaving.
It depends on the agreed rhythm and on what happens. Some months pass with nothing beyond updates and checks; others call for urgent work. The periodic report tells you what was actually done, including when there was nothing to report.