- 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.