WordPress Maintenance
Bot Traffic Attack Case Study: Stopped Before Any Downtime
The Short Version A site we manage took a massive traffic surge one morning: many times its normal volume, all inside a single hour. It was a bot traffic attack. Nothing was broken yet, but that kind of flood takes a server down fast once it tips over. Our monitoring knows what normal looks like…
WordPress Site Monitoring: What We Actually Watch
Most WordPress maintenance providers monitor 4 to 6 things, mostly unverified. Here is the full stack we run on every site we manage, and the real example that shows why it matters.
Card Testing Attack? How to Spot and Stop It on Your Store
TL;DR Card testing is a bot running stolen card numbers through your checkout to find out which ones still work. It is not trying to buy anything from you. The giveaway is a burst of declined orders with fake names, fake emails, and the same small charge amount hit over and over. Every declined attempt…
Troubleshooting Tips: Pinpointing the Root Causes of Fluctuating Website Speeds
Nothing sabotages the user experience quite like a website that loads at glacial speeds. One second your site is zipping along smoothly, and the next it’s sputtering slower than a dial-up connection. These frustrating fluctuations not only alienate your visitors, but also directly impact your revenue and search engine visibility. So what causes these vexing…
Scalability and Security: How Growth Can Present New Security Challenges
Every entrepreneur dreams of the day that their business becomes a viral sensation. After all, business growth comes with more opportunities, more sales, and more loyal customers. But rapid business growth online, as encouraging as it is, inevitably comes with its share of growing pains. As your web presence expands exponentially to meet rising customer…
Your Website Down? Your WP Guy Won’t Leave You Hanging in a Crisis
What’s Your Plan When Your Website Goes Dark at 3 AM? It’s every business owner’s nightmare – you wake up to an emergency text that your WordPress site is down. The overnight traffic surge from your new product launch has crashed your server and you’re losing thousands in sales by the minute. In this insightful…
The Business Perspective: How Site Neglect Can Impact Brand Image and Sales
It’s 2 AM when the frantic texts from your top customer jerk you awake. Bleary-eyed, you fumble to read the message on your phone. “Error message when trying to checkout on your site…pages look broken on my phone…what’s going on??” You scramble to grab your laptop as your heart races, pulling up your website. You…
Avoiding DIY Pitfalls: Why Professional Support Matters
Managing a business is already a challenge. Now throw in managing a website without expertise. Juggling too much at once is sure to lead to some dropped balls. And when your head is in a thousand places at once, even minor issues can quickly escalate into major headaches and lost revenue. Consider This A small…
How to Choose Between Manual and Automated WordPress Maintenance
If you’re running a small business owner, you’re likely wearing many hats and juggling countless tasks. And if you’re using WordPress for your website (which, let’s be honest, is pretty likely considering WordPress powers over 40% of the web), that’s another hat to add to your collection: The WordPress maintenance hat! Before you start panicking…
The Mysterious Case of Disappearing Content: Troubleshooting Sudden Losses
You probably do it every day: wake up, make your coffee, and log in to your website. But what happens if, when you access your website, you find that key pages, posts, and media files have inexplicably vanished? Your stomach drops. How will you explain this to customers? Situations like this are a real possibility…