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Website Maintenance ... What's It Really All About?

First of all, Website Maintenance is different from and not to be confused with website content updates.  Website maintenance is about  keeping your tech stack operating efficiently while website content updates refers to front-end tasks like updating articles, events videos, photos, etc.

Modern CMS systems offer clients amazing, enterprise grade software, features for a fraction of the cost. In fact, many modern, cutting edge websites today are developed and designed leveraging the power of CMS ( Content Management System) systems such as Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, Webflow and others. These applications streamline the development process and make websites more efficient, powerful, beautiful and scalable.

 The Benefits

The benefits are amazing as developing websites with a CMS system enables the average person (s), start up businesses, etc to launch their platforms with the same enterprise grade applications as major, Fortune 500 companies.  The cost of entry is minimal but the sky’s the limit in terms of upside possibilities.

Maintenance Requirements

However, these systems require regular maintenance because the core CMS development teams are constantly innovating, making code improvements, bug tracking and pro actively searching for exploits and security threats. When new updates have been released developers and platforms will be notified, and the developers or webmasters managing your platforms will perform software security patches and updates.ie “maintenance.”

In most cases, it is important that a professional developer make these updates as all installed software, application frameworks as well as 3rd party extensions and plugins will have to be checked for compatibility issues before the update is performed. Applying an update to a website with incompatible plugin versions can and in most cases will lead to broken websites.

And in terms of security you run the risk of your site being hacked, crashing, identity and data theft.  So for any professional, high traffic, mission critical website … not upgrading is not an option as it may leave a website vulnerable...

 

1MediaTech Maintenance Services

But of course You have no reason to worry!  Because You being the astute business person that you are wisely chose to launch your online business with 1MediaTech.Com.  All of our plans come with website maintenance included by default.

So you can rest assured and focus on your business knowing that all of your software runs on the latest versions, CMS software patches and security updates are timely applied, your tech stack and infrastructure is monitored 24/7/365 and your data is being backed up daily.

And, that’s an overview of what professional website maintenance is all about.