Cybersecurity Analysis

Website Maintenance Costs Less Than Emergency Downtime

Updates, backups and a restore test are cheaper than a Friday-night rebuild.

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Emergency rebuilds cost more than a boring maintenance retainer. This note is original to how we price and staff upkeep from Dhanmondi. It is not a scare article copied from a hosting blog.

WordPress needs core, plugin and PHP updates. Laravel needs dependency updates, a staging deploy, and a backup you have restored at least once. Shopify still needs theme and app hygiene. A backup that has never been restored is a rumour — we said the same in our handover article because it keeps being true.

  • Monthly update window with a named owner.
  • Offsite backup and a restore date written down.
  • Uptime check that pages a human, not only a ping.
  • A record of who holds the host, domain and repository.

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