ADRA Media Agency’s Website Hosting & Maintenance Solutions

What are Website Hosting and Maintenance?

You cannot have a website without website hosting and maintenance! Let’s take a brief look at what each of these is and what ADRA has to offer.

What is Website Hosting?

Think of website hosting as the plot of land you’re going to build—or already have built—your home on. Hosting provides the storage space for all the files that create your website. It also makes your website accessible to visitors. Website hosting is a required part of becoming a digital real estate owner.

If you’d like to learn a bit more about what web hosting entails, TechRadar has an informative article you may enjoy.

What is Website Maintenance?

Once your website is up and running, it’s a lot like your car. Cars need oil changes and windshield wiper fluid, transmission, and brake fluid added from time to time. Spark plugs need to be changed. Tire pressure needs to be checked, tires rotated, and replaced as needed. Fuses may need to be replaced. Alignments are needed. Other mechanical work may need to be done from time to time as well. The car maintenance list can get long…and expensive if you don’t have a good warranty (surely you get plenty of calls reminding you about your car’s extended warranty)!

You can also compare website maintenance with your body if you’re not a car person. To be sure you are in the best health possible, there are things you must do regularly such as eating right, drinking water, exercising, sleeping, having routine medical and dental care, and so forth. Without insurance, you can be in for quite the sticker shock if you need any special medical or dental care!

If you want to keep your website functioning properly for the long term, maintenance is required. Some website maintenance needs to be done weekly, some monthly, some quarterly, and some only annually.

Here’s a list of some website maintenance tasks that are required to ensure your website’s health:

• renewing your domain name
• renewing your SSL certificate
• renewing any software subscriptions
• updating design 
• updating graphics and photos
• updating top-performing blogs
• reviewing each page for content accuracy
• updating meta descriptions and meta titles
• updating forms, popups, and calls to action (CTAs)
• making periodic improvements in functionality as technology evolves
• ensuring content is up-to-date
• reviewing mobile-friendliness
• ensuring your advertising and marketing campaigns are updated
• locating any 404 errors and fixing or adding 301 redirects for any that are found
• checking for broken links and correcting them
• checking SEO for search visibility
• testing loading speed
• reviewing security scans and resolving any issues found
• analyzing website statistics
• updating software and any plugins
• updating passwords to help with security
• removing old users and adding new users as needed
• creating current backups and deleting older versions
• restoring backups to determine site health
• posting new content
• removing irrelevant or incorrect content

Much like living life on the edge without a car warranty or health insurance coverage, without a “website warranty” such as a good website maintenance plan, the hourly maintenance fees for your website(s) can kill your marketing budget!

Can’t I Get Website Hosting and Maintenance Anywhere?

Okay, so that is technically a loaded question! A person CAN find countless hosting providers across the Internet. So, the question should be more of a “Should I” variety. Keep reading to find out more.

There are many things to consider when it comes to website hosting and maintenance. You want to select a website hosting and maintenance package that will save you time and money while putting your mind at ease. Yet, you do get what you pay for when you enter the tech space! Choosing such services because they are the “cheapest” can set you and your website up for what may feel like 1980s-sci-fi-style destruction.

Not all hosting and maintenance providers are equal. Aside from the quality perspective, which you’ll read about below, ADRA Media can much more effectively monitor, backup, update, secure, and perform routine maintenance on websites we host on our servers (cloud hosting is available as well).

But let’s take a closer look at why we stand behind our website hosting and maintenance solutions.

ADRA Media Agency’s Website Hosting and Maintenance Solutions

Website hosting matters for many reasons. Some of these reasons include reliability, scalability, security, storage, speed, and customer service.

With ADRA Media Agency’s website hosting solutions, you are in excellent hands!

We offer a variety of budget-friendly, secure website hosting and maintenance packages to fit the needs of any business. We do not promise to be the cheapest, but we do promise the prices of our packages are reasonable and worth every penny.

All ADRA Media website hosting packages include regularly scheduled backups, SSL certificates, additional security software to protect against hackers, malware, viruses, etc., 24/7 support, and more.

The specifics of your website hosting account will be dependent on the type of website(s) you are hosting. You can learn more about this topic below.

Our website maintenance packages can be thought of as insurance policies to help reduce the costs of routine website maintenance your website may require throughout any given month.

When you purchase a monthly website maintenance package along with your website hosting package, you receive a guaranteed number of service hours at no charge each month.

Depending on the website maintenance package you select, you may also receive a discount on any additional hours required in a given month.

Check out our website hosting and maintenance packages below and let ADRA Media create a custom website hosting and maintenance package for you!