Websites that Engage

Your website is the core of your digital presence. We will think outside the box to ensure your website represents you authentically, and delivers on your goals.

Website Maintenance

Keeping the technology that underpins your website up to date shouldn’t be left to an automated task schedule!
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Tailored

Our maintenance service is customised for your website and performed by a human

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Full Visibility

Your monthly report is easy to read and clearly states all activities, along with key metrics

month to month website maintenance

Flexible

No lock-in contract; we want you to stay with us because you are happy, not because you are trapped

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Is Maintenance Required?

The web is not a static environment; it is constantly changing as platform providers seek to sure up their software against bad actors, and improve the performance by taking advantage of new hardware and technology advances.

Your website is the core of your digital presence; you cannot afford to leave the stability of your website to chance and continue hoping that:

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    it won’t crash
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    it won’t get hacked and suddenly display inappropriate content or even worse, take visitors to another website or install malware on their computer
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    your customer data isn't compromised, and
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    your website keeps working!

Our website maintenance service provides you with peace of mind, knowing that it is being kept up to date, checked, and a human is looking at all the important logs and metrics on a regular basis.

Our Website Maintenance is NOT ...

Contactpoint website maintenance is NOT clicking the upgrade button beside each plugin, switching on automatic updates, or moving your hosting to a WordPress ‘optimised’ web host.

We do not use automated update tools because these run the risk of:

  • breaking a feature of your website.
  • upsetting design elements within your website, or in the worst cases
  • crashing your website, without anyone noticing it.

The Contactpoint approach

The Contactpoint approach to website maintenance ensures that your website is kept secure, stable, and high-performing; all at an affordable cost.

Not every update should be installed immediately

Being at the forefront of website technology for both WordPress and Laravel, we know that every upgrade is not ready to be installed straight away in every website. Below are just some of the ways our expert developer team gauge the best time to perform an update:

  • referencing feedback from the wider open-source community via various channels
  • assessing the update in light of the plugins and components installed on a website
  • referring to our internal knowledge base for insights about the results of similar updates
  • assessing the upgrade from a design, performance and security perspective.

The key to top performance scores

On the basis of our success in achieving outstanding website performance scores for our clients, we are confident that we can achieve and then maintain optimal performance for your website.  Website performance metrics, such as the Google Core Web Vitals, are directly related to high ranks in the search engines (SEO) for your website.

Our team has invested in hundreds of hours of R&D in order to understand and keep abreast of the nuances of website performance:

  • which plugins perform well, which ones certainly won’t!
  • which APIs interfere with your page load speed
  • likely causes of excessive use of server resources

and have all this information integrated into our internal knowledge systems.

The Framework

Contactpoint has processes in place to perform maintenance activities in a highly efficient manner, causing minimal (if any) interruption to your website.

You will receive a report from us at the end of each month summarising the activities performed as part of the maintenance tasks.  We also inform you of any software or plugin licences that needs renewing or components that need to be replaced.

Major updates will be co-ordinated with you to ensure an appropriate timeslot is selected, in and around your marketing activities.

What You Can Expect

Our website maintenance activities include carrying out the following each month:
  • Technology Updates:
    • Updating the underlying technology e.g. the PHP language
    • Website framework  update e.g. WordPress, Laravel etc.
    • Database repair and upgrades e.g. MySQL
    • JavaScript language and library updates
    • WordPress Plugin  updates
    • WordPress Theme updates, including ensuring that you always have a backup theme, but not lots of other  unused themes
  • Security checks including inspecting error logs and checking for suspicious files and activity
  • Backup and restore checks
  • Source control management enabling rollback, when required
  • Test the main features of your website including enquiry form submissions
  • Record the usage of server resources and address any unusual values

Cost:

The effort required to perform maintenance on each website is dependent on several factors including:

  • technology running the website,
  • size of the website,
  • complexity e.g. whether your website supports eCommerce or comprises custom functionality
  • number and quality of plugins used on the website
  • integrations in place e.g. with CRMs or accounting software

Likely maintenance budgets required are estimated below:

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Simple Marketing Website

5 - 10 pages, with basic plugins and production environment only — 1 to 2 hours effort

ecommerce website

Ecommerce Website

50 - 100 products with integrations for online payment and shipping — 2 to 3 hours effort

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Web Application

Custom functionality and integrations with 3rd party APIs and multiple environments — 4 to 5 hours effort

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