How Do You Choose A Website Maintenance Company?


Whilst you can carry out some website maintenance yourself, it’s best to hire a company to look after the more technical side. If you are a small company, you may wish to save money and add new content or blog posts yourself or outsource this to enable you to spend time on growing your business.  Or with a bigger business, you may have the resource to carry out those tasks in the house. However, when it comes to updating plugins, fixing bugs and installing security fixes it’s safer to leave this to a professional company who can fix something should an update break anything?

Many businesses outsource all website maintenance to a professional company as it saves internal resources and often money.

Here are some points to consider, and hopefully help you make the right choice:

Prior to committing to any company, you need to understand exactly what they are offering you. You should be able to get a break down of all the tasks they will carry out.

It’s important to remember the price you pay will depend on:

  • The size of your website (i.e., the number of pages)
  • The complexity of your site (for example, the number of plugins that require regular updates etc)
  • How much you are wanting the company to do (for example, expect to pay more if you require the company to write you several blogs a month as well as all the general maintenance)
You will need to decide what you want the company to do, to define the type of service you require. Make sure you know what you will be paying for and establish how often the tasks will be undertaken. If you are in any doubt about what a company is offering you, speak to another company or individual, you will quickly find out whether a company is reliable or not.

Be wary of just signing up with a monthly fee without discovering exactly what you’re paying for, even if it is cheap. Too many times businesses sign a contract and within a couple of months realise that they aren’t having the work done.

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