With sub-par website security, you are opening your company up to a potential disaster. Websites are not regularly updated, or that are using software which is no longer supported are much more susceptible to being violated. The security holes that exist from a lack of maintenance will be exploited by hackers who make it their business to find vulnerable websites. If your company is engaged in eCommerce, not only is your data at risk, so is your customer’s data. A customer’s information, such as social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and financial account information can be held hostage by a hacker until a ransom is paid, which leads us to the next point.

Your business can’t afford to have ransomware placed on its website. The perpetrator will keep your site locked down until you have paid them off. Once ransomware has been installed there is little you can do to deal with it and paying the hackers is inevitable. Your site can also be used to distribute spam which will land your company’s domain on a blacklist. While getting removed from spam blacklists is possible it takes time and money to fix.

If the reason you have a website is to convert visitors into customers, then a positive user experience is crucial. If you are using the same version of your site you have had since you installed Windows Vista, then your customers will not have a good experience. Today, customers expect websites to load quickly and be easy to navigate. Our web design team can create a new site that fits your brand and functions. Our website maintenance team will ensure that when a visitor views your site that they can easily find what they are searching for and that it happens swiftly.

Bugs that exist due to a lack of updating can ruin a user’s experience. We will make sure that updates are applied immediately so that your site runs smoothly. We will remove dead links that are still active and make sure any forms are still functioning properly. If your customer clicks on a product page and receive a page not found error, that damages your brand and negates any chance of the product being purchased.

Maintaining a fast website is vital to its success or failure. Our website maintenance experts will check your site to see if speeds are as fast as they should be and that your page loads immediately. Why does speed matter? The current amount of time a user will wait for a page to load is three seconds and shrinking. If a page takes any longer than three seconds to load, a visitor will likely leave and with them any chance of a future conversion. We will keep your site loading quickly and lighting fast.

Nothing can be more devastating to a business than losing all of your data. Daily backups are a necessity to keep your data from vanishing forever. Having your data backed up on a regular basis also insulates you from ransomware. If your data is saved to a secure location, there is no need to pay a ransom. Our website maintenance team will make sure that your data is there when you need it. Natural disasters such as a hurricane or man-made disasters such as a broken water pipe in a server room won’t impact your data.