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Website maintenance & support.

After launch come updates, backups and the first change requests. We keep your website or software running and keep building when your business changes. Even if someone else built it.

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01 / What’s included

What happens in website maintenance.

Maintenance is work on a system that is already live. Some call it website support or website care. Part of it you never notice. The other part you ask for when you need something.

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    Updates

    We keep the framework, packages and server software up to date. On our own systems an update only goes live once the automated tests have passed.

  • 02

    Daily backup

    A backup every day, kept for 30 days, encrypted and stored apart from the server. Before sign-off we restore one of them once. Then you know it works when it counts.

  • 03

    Monitoring

    If your site goes down, the alert comes straight to us. You don’t have to call us first to get someone to look.

  • 04

    Small changes

    A new price, a public holiday, an extra field in the form. Changes of up to one hour of work are included in maintenance.

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    New features

    Anything over an hour gets a price up front, at the hourly rate from the project, even in year three. If it grows into a system of its own, we build it as a web app.

    Web apps & platforms ↗
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    Hosting and SEO next door

    Where the site lives is a hosting question. Whether Google finds it is SEO work. Both belong to operations & growth with us, and you can add them.

    Hosting & email ↗

02 / Live

Where you can see how we run systems.

Three of these are our own products, and we run them ourselves. They show how we handle a system that has to work every day. For BSB-Akademie we keep building after launch, and for Turkish Home a sync runs on our server every morning.

03 / Maintenance contract

What the maintenance contract says.

How fast we respond and what is included is in our contract, with numbers. For maintenance it is a service contract, for the project before it a contract for work.

Work over one hour gets a price up front. You decide before we start.

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Reachable
daily from 6 am to 11 pm
Reply
within 3 hours
Included
changes of up to one hour of work
Beyond that
a price up front, at the hourly rate from the projectEven in year three.
Backup
daily, 30 days, encrypted and stored separatelyRestored once before sign-off.
Warranty
24 months on defectsFor what we built.
Data protection
data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR
Code and access
in your repository, on your accounts

04 / Takeover

We also take over websites and software that others built.

The agency from back then no longer exists, or nobody knows where the logins are. Then we start with an inventory.

We know best what we build with ourselves: PHP with Laravel, Node.js and NestJS, C# and .NET, and on the web Vue, Nuxt and React.

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    Collect the access

    Domain, server, repository, admin area: we work out who holds which login. In the end they all sit on your accounts, not ours.

  • 02

    Take stock

    We look at the code, the server and the backups and write down what stays, what moves and what goes. Then you know what you are getting into.

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    Back up first

    Before we change anything, we back up the state as we found it. After that the daily backup runs.

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    Keep it or replace it

    If the system can be maintained, it goes into maintenance. If every change costs more than a rebuild, we tell you and replace it step by step, without your business standing still.

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05 / What it costs

What website maintenance costs depends on what is running.

What maintenance costs for you, we tell you after the intro call, in writing. The intro call and cost estimate cost €0.

Work beyond the included hour is billed by time, with a price up front. For a larger extension or a replacement, the calculator on the contact page gives you a cost estimate in four questions.

What is running
A website with a contact form needs less than a system with customer accounts and payments.
Who built it
With a system someone else built, the inventory comes first, then the offer.
How much changes
Changes of up to one hour of work are included. Anything more gets a price up front.

Four questions, then you see budget and weeks.

What it’s about, how big, how demanding, how urgent. No obligation and no contact details. If you send an inquiry afterwards, you don’t type anything twice.

Get a cost estimate
Intro call and cost estimate
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06 / How it starts

From the first call to the first backup.

If we built your system, it goes straight into maintenance after sign-off. If someone else built it, this is how it starts.

  1. 01

    Intro call

    You tell us what is running, who built it and what is causing trouble. It costs €0.

  2. 02

    Inventory

    We look at the code, server, logins and backups and write down what we find.

  3. 03

    Offer

    What maintenance includes, what it costs and how fast we respond, all in writing.

  4. 04

    Set-up

    Logins on your accounts, daily backup, monitoring that alerts us.

  5. 05

    Ongoing operation

    Updates, small changes, a reply within three hours. Anything bigger gets a price up front.

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07 / Questions

Questions about website maintenance.

What does website maintenance include?
With us: updates to the framework, packages and server software, a daily backup kept for 30 days, and monitoring that sends its alert straight to us. On top of that, changes of up to one hour of work. Anything more gets a price up front.
What is the difference between maintenance, care and support?
The three words are often used for the same thing. Strictly speaking, maintenance means the technology: updates, backups, monitoring. Care means the content: a new price, a public holiday, a field in the form. Support means someone is reachable, with us daily from 6 am to 11 pm with a reply within three hours. Our maintenance contract covers all three.
How much does a website maintenance contract cost?
It depends on what is running. A website with a contact form needs less than a system with customer accounts and payments. We give you the amount in writing after the intro call, which costs €0. Changes of up to one hour of work are included, and anything more gets a price up front. For a larger extension or a replacement, the calculator on the contact page gives you a cost estimate in four questions.
Does a small website even need maintenance?
If it has a form, a content management system or plugins, yes. Security holes keep turning up in parts like these, and without an update they stay open. A contact form that stops sending emails otherwise goes unnoticed until the enquiries stop. A site with no form and no admin area needs much less.
Aren’t automatic updates enough?
An automatic update doesn’t check whether the contact form still sends emails afterwards. On our own systems an update only goes live once the automated tests have passed. If something breaks anyway, monitoring reports the outage straight to us, and the daily backup goes back 30 days.
Which systems do you take on for website and software maintenance?
Websites and software. We know best what we build with ourselves: on the web TypeScript, Vue, Nuxt and React, on the backend Node.js, NestJS, PHP with Laravel, and C# and .NET, plus MySQL and PostgreSQL. Zularis, the seminar management system of BSB-Akademie and the Baustoff-Express shop are built with Laravel. If your system is built with something else, the inventory shows whether we keep maintaining it or are better off replacing it.
Do you maintain a website that someone else built?
Yes. It starts with an inventory of the code, server, logins and backups. After that you know what stays, what moves and what goes. If patching is no longer worth it, we tell you and replace the system step by step, without your business standing still.
How fast do you respond when the site goes down?
Monitoring sends the alert straight to us, so you don’t have to report the outage first. We are reachable daily from 6 am to 11 pm and get back to you within three hours. That is what the contract says.
What is the difference between maintenance and hosting?
Hosting is the place: server, domain, mailboxes. Maintenance is the work on what runs there: updates, backups, monitoring, changes. You can have both with us, or just maintenance if your server is somewhere else.
Do you also maintain websites for businesses outside Duisburg?
Yes. Our office is in Duisburg, and our clients come from all over Germany. Updates, backups and monitoring run remotely, and we talk by phone. The code and logins are on your accounts anyway.
What happens if I end maintenance?
The source code is in your repository and the logins are on your accounts. If you carry on yourself or move to someone else, you get a codebase that can be handed over. Whatever has been signed off and paid for belongs to you.

Tell us briefly about your project

The intro call costs nothing, and neither does the cost estimate after it. If what you need can be bought off the shelf, we tell you its name and send no invoice.

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