Maintenance Plans
Website consultation
Of course we do office consultation for maintenance clients. When we say you get one hour a month for standard site maintenance we mean it. Sometimes that involves fixing something that wasn’t working quite right on the back end. But sometimes it involves a one-hour strategy consultation on how to blog effectively. No, we won’t…
Read MoreDon’t tell anyone but we’re beta testing daily backups and WordPress software updates for all maintenance clients…
We’ve been making weekly backups and software updates for our maintenance clients for a very long time. Since sometime back in 2012. We started officially in late 2013 or early 2014. We always watch for malware and software vulnerabilities and run updates as soon as developers release fixes. When we upgrading our hardware and software earlier…
Read MoreWhat Would You Do If Your Site Completely Disappeared?
Nobody wants to see messages like these when they visit their website. Or their hosting company. Or their website control panel. And the good news? Usually you don’t! It’s even better news if you have regular, recent backups stored somewhere besides your hosting company’s servers. That way, if bad comes to worse and your hosting company has…
Read More15 Million Vulnerable to All in One SEO Pack Bug
Yesterday the vulnerability was announced. If you’re a RealBasics maintenance client using All in One SEO Pack your site is already protected and the plugin fixed. Today, All in One SEO Pack plugin team has released an emergency security update that patches two critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities and one cross site scripting (XSS) flaw,…
Read MoreNews for clients about the “Heartbleed” security flaw
Summary: Unless we’ve contacted you individually via phone or email your site doesn’t use security certificates and so it’s not directly affected by the widely reported Heartbleed internet-security bug. Details: When a security bug is reported as straight news in the New York Times it’s probably pretty serious. And the newly reported OpenSSL “Heartbleed” bug, which may have…
Read MoreRegular Code Updates Limit Long-term Hacker Opportunities
Short version: Keep your website up to date — the older your CMS (e.g. Wordpress, Drupal, etc.) the more time hackers have to reverse engineer and hack it. Full disclosure and partial sales pitch: Our monthly maintenance plan includes timely updates to your site’s core software, plugins, and themes. It’s not all we do, but…
Read MoreOf Course There’s a Mobile App for Your WordPress Website!
Yes, you can definitely manage and update your WordPress website from your smart phone, tablet, or other mobile device! Where to get it: Official apps from WordPress.org — The most official, and most up to date source for WordPress apps has links for devices from Apple, Android, Windows, Nokia, Blackberry, and more. The folks at…
Read MoreWe Decided to Offer Service Plans While Waiting For an Oil Change
After years of building websites that are easy for their owners to maintain and update I’ve come to a big realization: not everybody WANTS to maintain and update their sites! Actually the big realization came when I pulled into one of those 15-minute oil-change places. Yes, I COULD change the oil myself, and would even…
Read MoreWhy YOUR Site Needs Strong Passwords
Over at the WordFence blog, Mark Maunder explains why it’s important to enforce strong passwords on your website: f someone hacks your site and downloads the user database table they can crack your encrypted passwords at their leisure We can fix that and here’s why that matters! “Why do I care, my site has already been…
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