Website maintenance
Website maintenance, planned like building maintenance
Websites decay the way plant rooms do: quietly, then all at once. We apply the same planned-maintenance thinking we use on buildings, so a site is looked after before something breaks, not after.
Why maintain a website on a plan
An unmaintained site rarely breaks in one dramatic moment. Software falls behind, pages slow down as content piles up, a form quietly stops sending, a certificate expires. Each one is small. Together they cost you enquiries you never find out about.
Planned maintenance deals with these while they're small. It's the same logic we apply to air conditioning and pumps: look after the thing before it fails.
What website maintenance involves
In general, website maintenance means keeping the software a site runs on up to date, checking that pages and forms still work, and keeping an eye on speed and security as the site changes.
What a particular site needs depends on how it was built, what it runs on and how often it changes.
Planned maintenance, on both sides
Crew Innovation also maintains commercial buildings. Planned maintenance is a discipline, and it transfers: the habit of looking after a system before it fails works as well for a website as it does for air conditioning.
Sites we build are made to be looked after: clean code, documentation and no bloated page builder. More on that under web design and development.
Ask about maintaining your website.
Send the address of the site and a line about what worries you about it.