System upgrades
It's important to keep your website up to date to protect against security vulnerabilities and to optimise performance. We will carry out upgrades at agreed points on an annual basis.
Technical maintenance
With any system with a large code base it’s important to keep the code up to date by carrying out regular technical maintenance.
This means systematically editing, restructuring and tidying up code to keep it efficient and maintainable. This is also known as ‘refactoring’. Without this essential maintenance you end up slowly accumulating ‘technical debt’ which can slow down development and make the platform more costly to run, in the longer term.
We will usually only recommend setting aside time for technical maintenance on complex web applications. Standard CMS projects don't usually require this.
Hosting services
We offer a quality, fully managed cloud based hosting service on your own virtual machine (VM).
Your website will be hosted in an environment perfectly configured to support your requirements. The hosting environment is provided by Digital Ocean and managed by our team.
Your website will have an SSL certificate applied for security best practice. We have a robust back up process, using an external service to back up databases on a regular basis.
We constantly monitor server performance with a range of monitoring tools and can make adjustments where needed to ensure site performance is never compromised.