Website Hosting and Maintenance Services
Web Hosting
As a company that provides cutting edge websites, it’s important for us to maintain continuity on the websites we build. We routinely host our clients’ websites and provide the routine maintenance that keeps each site performing at the level we require.
Hosting covers everything from storing the actual files that power your website on a server and the networking connectivity that enables the rest of the world to see it. It’s a home for your website, where it lives, and where it grows.
Hosting is cheap. You can get hosting as cheap as $3.99 per month from vendors like GoDaddy. On these ultra-cheap hosting platforms, you’re sharing what is known as a virtual server with thousands of neighbors who don’t promise to behave. If a website on that cluster experiences a lot of load, your website will directly suffer because of it. It’s like moving into a crowded college apartment complex when you have a family of four. In no circumstance do we recommend economy level hosting
The host’s responsibility to you is an allocation of space and availability of network so that the website can be accessed from the Internet. That’s it. Anything else that may happen or go wrong with your website is squarely in your hands.
Website Maintenance
Walk West will ensure that all hardware, software, and network updates are done proactively and according to need. CMS level updates occur in real time for minor versions and after vetting on major versions.
Virtually no hosting company will offer maintenance on your website. Maintenance activity usually covers things such as
- Content management system updates
- Plugin and module updates
- Backup scheduling,
- Server and security updates
These are things that can be a bit complicated to users who aren’t used to tech-speak. Experiencing an outage, a hack, or a website that’s running slowly will quickly have you calling someone else with the skills and experience to navigate it – and usually at a cost you’re not expecting.
