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WordPress website maintenance. WordPress website security audits. WordPress website security monitoring. I know, I know… stop with all the sexy talk, Alysson. I got carried away. My apologies. Sarcasm aside, while keeping your website updated isn’t exactly exciting, it is important. But you’re busy. You don’t have time for all that nonsense. Whether you’re a website designer, a marketing consultant, or a small business owner, you’ve got better things to do than throw website maintenance tasks on your to-do list along with all the other stuff you’ve got to do. And what if something goes wrong? What if a plugin update breaks your site? Would you know what to do? Now you don’t have to worry about it. I offer 4 levels of maintenance and security services to meet a variety of needs.
Compare My WordPress Website Maintenance Packages
- WordPress Core Software & Plugin Updates
- Not all themes can be updated. Yours will be evaluated when you sign up and any issues will be brought to your attention right away.WordPress Theme Updates
- BackupBuddy is the most complete WordPress website backup solution available and BackupBuddy will remain installed on your website as long as you are an active client.BackupBuddy Plugin Installation
- Complete Website Backup
- Secure off-site backup file storage
- One-time security audit
- Includes establishing firewall protections, establishing login attempt & password retrieval limits, removes generator META information, etc.Basic security protocols
- Includes basic security protocol implementation, plus additional security measures such as removing/renaming the "admin" user, removing the ID1 user account, protecting system files, disabling directory browsing, renaming the database prefix, etc. Advanced security protocols
- Sucuri Malware Scan
- Wordfence Directory Scan (server-level)
- Wordfence Site Scan (public-facing site)
- Actively monitor for malicious code injection attempts, block brute-force attacks, 404 detection, automatically blocks bad bots, fake crawlers, and known malicious IPs, monitor real-time traffic of humans and crawlers, etc.Active Security Monitoring
- Cross-check your domain against known SPAM, includes monitoring for emails containing your domain and/or SPAM originating from your website's IP addressActive SPAM monitoring
- Hosting your site on an unreliable server can not only nagatively impact your visitors, but also your site's performance in search results... you should know when and how often it goes down.Server uptime monitoring
- Database optimization
- Broken links can not only frustrate your visitors, but it can also negatively impact your site's performance in search enginesBroken link monitoring
- When changes are made to your website through your WordPress dashboard, you should know who did it and when.Website admin change monitoring
- Scans all comments against multiple lists of known malicious IPs and bad hostsAdvanced comment filtering
- Up to 3 hours of time to fix problems, make changes, add new pages, upload or optimize images, etc.Website changes, fixes, and tweaks
- Reporting
The Basics
$100
per month
- Software updates performed once per month
- Complete backup generated once per month
- Most recent complete backup file stored on your web server within your existing WordPress installation
- You'll receive a monthly email indicating your software has been updated and your site has been backed up
Sleep Easy
$250
per month
- Software updates performed once per month
- Complete backup generated once per month
- Up to 3 of the most recent complete backup files securely stored outside your website's server and available for retrieval within 24-48 hours via email request
- Once per month
- Once per month
- You'll receive a monthly summary report
CYA
$350
per month
- Software updates performed once per week
- Complete backup generated once per week
- Up to 6 of the most recent complete backup files securely stored outside your website's server and available for retrieval on-demand via Dropbox
- Once per week
- Once per week
- Once per week
- WordPress database will be optimized once per month
- All links will be scanned and fixed as necessary monthly
- You'll receive a detailed monthly report including information about software updates, broken links, security issues, etc.
Lockdown
$500
per month
- Software updates performed within 24 hours of email alert
- Complete backup generated once per day
- Up to 30 of the most recent complete backup files securely stored outside your website's server and available for retrieval on-demand via Dropbox
- Once per day
- Once per day
- Once per day
- WordPress database will be optimized once per week
- All links will be scanned weekly and fixed as necessary
- Website change logs will be kept for a minimum of 60 days
- You'll receive a detailed monthly report including information about software updates, broken links, server uptime reports, security issues, etc.
Who Needs This Service?
The short answer? Everyone who owns a WordPress website. More specifically:
Developers, Designers, & Consultants – Problem Solved
You built a site 3 years ago. Today that client emailed you freaking out that their site has been hacked and they have no idea what to do. So you log in to check things out and find that no one has touched the site in 3 years. No core software updates. No plugin updates. No theme updates. Nothing. “O… M… G!”
Show of hands from my SEOs and consultants… how many times have you logged in to a new client’s WordPress dashboard only to say, “SWEET FANCY MOSES! WordPress 2.7.1… holy crap, that was one ugly user interface…”? Or “Oh… would you look at that – there are 27 core software, plugin, and theme updates that need to be applied. That’s awesome. Time for an email.” It happens all the time. Right? And that’s why I decided to start offering WordPress website maintenance services to begin with. Now you can, too. You can either refer your clients directly to me or you can white label my services and brand the reports any way you like.
Small Business Owners – This Is Really For You
Maybe you’re a baker. Or a pet sitter. Perhaps a landscaper. You’re not a programmer. You’re not a tech nerd. And you don’t want to be. I get it. Despite your best intentions, doing WordPress website maintenance isn’t on your radar. You haven’t even logged in to your WordPress dashboard in months… maybe years. But if your website isn’t kept up to date, it puts your business at risk. Running outdated software is a security risk. That means your website could be hacked. Most small business owners rely on a website as their primary marketing tool. According to Forbes.com contributor James Lyne, an average of 30,000 websites are hacked per day. Here’s some of what James has to say on the subject…
On average 30,000 new websites are identified every day (source Sophos Labs [Disclosure: I work for Sophos]) distributing malicious code to any users passing by. Many hold on to the idea that viruses are distributed from adult sites, gambling and other forms of vice but in reality the majority of these 30,000 sites are legitimate small businesses that are unwittingly distributing malicious code for the cyber criminals. You might be one of them. Another widely held web threat misconception is that cyber criminals only go after large enterprises or government organisations. I wish I had a dollar for every time someone said “but we are a small business, cyber criminals aren’t likely to target us” followed shortly by them getting hit by something nasty. Cyber criminals have automated scanning tools scouring the web looking for websites to infect to deploy their malicious code. Their target could be a personal blog, a small business website or a massive news site. Wherever there is a vulnerability they will happily capitalise on it to spread their wares.
No Website Is 100% Secure
Look, no matter what you do, no website is absolutely hack-proof. That said, there are a number of security-specific best practices that can be employed that will make your WordPress website far, far more secure than the average WordPress website. The more you do to actively secure your website, the less chance there is of it ever being hacked in the first place. But since no website is completely un-hackable, you need to actively monitor your website for potential exploits and file changes, too. You don’t want Google to be the one to tell you that your website has been hacked. By that time your site is probably already being penalized. If your website is compromised, you want to know as soon as possible. And you want to fix it as soon as possible.
My WordPress website maintenance, security audits, and security monitoring services can help to protect your small business site from hackers and malicious jackwagons so you can focus on running your business.
Ask yourself these questions:
- How much did I spend to have this website built?
- Do I a have complete backup of my site?
- What if I wanted to move my website to a different host?
- How secure is my website?
- How would I know if my website had been hacked?
- Would I know what to do if my site was hacked?
- Could I quickly relaunch my site after a hack or would I be stuck having to build a new site from scratch?
Compare My WordPress Website Maintenance Packages
- WordPress Core Software & Plugin Updates
- Not all themes can be updated. Yours will be evaluated when you sign up and any issues will be brought to your attention right away.WordPress Theme Updates
- BackupBuddy is the most complete WordPress website backup solution available and BackupBuddy will remain installed on your website as long as you are an active client.BackupBuddy Plugin Installation
- Complete Website Backup
- Secure off-site backup file storage
- One-time security audit
- Includes establishing firewall protections, establishing login attempt & password retrieval limits, removes generator META information, etc.Basic security protocols
- Includes basic security protocol implementation, plus additional security measures such as removing/renaming the "admin" user, removing the ID1 user account, protecting system files, disabling directory browsing, renaming the database prefix, etc. Advanced security protocols
- Sucuri Malware Scan
- Wordfence Directory Scan (server-level)
- Wordfence Site Scan (public-facing site)
- Actively monitor for malicious code injection attempts, block brute-force attacks, 404 detection, automatically blocks bad bots, fake crawlers, and known malicious IPs, monitor real-time traffic of humans and crawlers, etc.Active Security Monitoring
- Cross-check your domain against known SPAM, includes monitoring for emails containing your domain and/or SPAM originating from your website's IP addressActive SPAM monitoring
- Hosting your site on an unreliable server can not only nagatively impact your visitors, but also your site's performance in search results... you should know when and how often it goes down.Server uptime monitoring
- Database optimization
- Broken links can not only frustrate your visitors, but it can also negatively impact your site's performance in search enginesBroken link monitoring
- When changes are made to your website through your WordPress dashboard, you should know who did it and when.Website admin change monitoring
- Scans all comments against multiple lists of known malicious IPs and bad hostsAdvanced comment filtering
- Up to 3 hours of time to fix problems, make changes, add new pages, upload or optimize images, etc.Website changes, fixes, and tweaks
- Reporting
The Basics
$100
per month
- Software updates performed once per month
- Complete backup generated once per month
- Most recent complete backup file stored on your web server within your existing WordPress installation
- You'll receive a monthly email indicating your software has been updated and your site has been backed up
Sleep Easy
$250
per month
- Software updates performed once per month
- Complete backup generated once per month
- Up to 3 of the most recent complete backup files securely stored outside your website's server and available for retrieval within 24-48 hours via email request
- Once per month
- Once per month
- You'll receive a monthly summary report
CYA
$350
per month
- Software updates performed once per week
- Complete backup generated once per week
- Up to 6 of the most recent complete backup files securely stored outside your website's server and available for retrieval on-demand via Dropbox
- Once per week
- Once per week
- Once per week
- WordPress database will be optimized once per month
- All links will be scanned and fixed as necessary monthly
- You'll receive a detailed monthly report including information about software updates, broken links, security issues, etc.
Lockdown
$500
per month
- Software updates performed within 24 hours of email alert
- Complete backup generated once per day
- Up to 30 of the most recent complete backup files securely stored outside your website's server and available for retrieval on-demand via Dropbox
- Once per day
- Once per day
- Once per day
- WordPress database will be optimized once per week
- All links will be scanned weekly and fixed as necessary
- Website change logs will be kept for a minimum of 60 days
- You'll receive a detailed monthly report including information about software updates, broken links, server uptime reports, security issues, etc.
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