Is a Website Maintenance Plan Worth It?

Yes! For a business, a website maintenance plan is worth every penny. Here’s why: you’ve invested time, energy, and money—valuable resources—into building your website. It is an asset that can generate revenue for years to come as long as you take care of it properly. Just as you perform preventative maintenance on your business vehicles, you should also carry out regular maintenance on your website. A website maintenance plan allows you to protect your investment in your website, head off small problems before they become big problems, and most importantly, have a backup in case of emergencies.

Protect Your Investment

Hiring a professional to maintain your business website is a no-brainer. Technology changes at a rapid pace, and if you’re busy running your business, then you won’t have time to keep up with those changes. An expert team (like the one here at Diace Designs) will know how to safeguard your website against malicious attacks and unintentional destruction alike. With a website maintenance plan, you get access to professional developers who stay up to date on the latest malware and security threats so that you can focus on your business instead of worrying about your website.

Head off Major Issues

When you have an expert monitoring your website’s health and performance, you have the chance to catch small problems before they become much worse. Maybe you’ve been uploading files that are too large for your server, and you’re about to run out of space on your site. Or maybe you forgot that an ex-employee has administrator access to your domain settings. With a maintenance plan in place, you’ll have someone looking out for warning signs that you wouldn’t recognize on your own.

Have a Backup

One of the best things about having a maintenance plan is that you’ll always have a backup copy of your website ready to go—just in case. Even with the best maintenance plans, you can end up accidentally modifying or even deleting your live site, and hackers figure out new ways to wreak havoc on websites every day. Having a recent backup copy of your website is critical, and it is something that a maintenance plan will give you.

Here at Diace Designs, we’ve seen it all. Trust us when we say that website maintenance is absolutely worth it (especially if you have a WordPress website). After all, it’s usually much less expensive to pay for preventative maintenance than it is to fix a problem once the damage is done… if it can even be fixed at all. If your business has a website but you don’t yet have a maintenance plan in place, contact us. We can help!

About Kara Franco
Kara writes copy that speaks. She has a knack for creating clear, compelling messages without wasting words. She is passionate about digital marketing and believes that copy is the cornerstone of user experience.

Copywriter + Content Strategist
Kara@diacedesigns.com