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Our Secure Managed WordPress Hosting/ Website Maintenance includes WordPress Critical Updates through the year (Note: yearly updates alone normally start at $350/yr from other companies), WordPress Plugin Updates when needed like Contact Forms and SEO Yoast Plugins, One Month Full Backup of Website and, last but not least a premiere Staging Server where you can work on your site and push it live when you are ready.

There are so many things that we do when we host our clients. To begin, we add special WordPress speed plugins to your website that help optimize images even if they're too large. This is important because Google ranks websites based on speed. We also as part of the hosting package set up clients on Google Search Console that will report to us if Google thinks we need to fix anything or get hacked. We also have Uptime Monitoring if your website goes does for 15 min, we will receive an email. Additionally all year long we are optimise our client's websites where there is a new update to anything in the website space. We spend on average 10-15 hours a year on each client site hosted. You can do the math and understand our value as we take our client's hosting very seriously. Oh, and we keep your HTTPS site up to browser standards for secure visitor browsing. We are second to none with the quality of our hosting. You can, of course, choose Godaddy hosting for cheaper, but good luck keeping your business website up to standard and protected on their shared hosting servers. There are a lot of things that can cause issues that you need to understand about technology. Ask us if you have any questions as your business website is important to your bottom line year to year.

WEB DEPARTMENT YEARLY HOSTING TASKS OVERVIEW

1. WordPress (Website database "backbone") Updates - This includes security updates as well as new features as they're released to keep the site secure.
2. Framework Updates - This includes the visual builder platform and our analytics and reporting integrations.
3. Plugin Updates - All advanced functionality is managed through the form of a "plugin" which keeps the code separate, so as WordPress and framework changes create new issues we must keep plugins up to date in order to ensure compatibility going forward.
4. Website Optimization - As we acquire new technology and new tools become released we implement these new technologies to ensure that our clients are always up to date and are giving search engines the strongest signals it can, staying up to date and implementing best practices is a great way to show search engines authority. For example this year we transitioned all of our clients over from a standard contact form to "gravity forms" which is a more advanced plugin that also tracks email submissions on the back end of the website for record-keeping.
5. Futureproofing - As new standards emerge and roll out, we do our best to get all of our client's sites on board with new technology and ensure that we're constantly delivering those signals of authority to the crawlers. For example, since Google Chrome has now decided that websites without encryption are now being flagged as "potentially unsafe" we have been rolling out encryption certificates (SSL) over to all client sites regardless of whether SSL was standard at the time of their website creation.

Hosting Features:

Daily Website Backups, restore to any day within the last month.
Top-Level Security - Not only do we implement SSL (HTTPS) standards for every client our web host is a custom-built WordPress service that is built from the top down for performance and security.

Content Delivery Network (optional) - For websites that target more than one geographic area can sometimes benefit from the implementation of a content delivery network.

Scalable - If your website grows beyond being able to handle a default amount of traffic, our platform allows us to easily transition sites up and down hosting tiers in order to accommodate the added bandwidth. There may be costs associated with upgrading but our platform does not bottleneck your website, there should be no downtime if there are more resources required than allocated, we will just let you know when it's time to upgrade your hosting tiers and why.