Website Maintenance
Website maintenance covers two halves: technical upkeep (updates, backups, uptime, security) and content upkeep (prices, dates, offers, years). Maintenance contracts usually cover only the technical half. The content half stays with the owner — and it is the half visitors actually read.
Hand off the content half
DustOff does the looking and only writes to you when something has gone out of date.
No account, no credit card. Takes a minute.
The technical half
Everything that keeps the site running:
- Updates to the system and its extensions.
- Backups, and confirming they can actually be restored.
- Uptime, certificates, load time.
- Security checks.
The content half
Everything visitors actually read:
- Prices, offers, promotions.
- Dates and opening hours.
- Team, references, services.
- Legal pages, privacy notices, copyright years.
Maintenance, upkeep, care
Vendors use these words interchangeably. What matters isn't the word in the contract but the list behind it: who does what, how often, and is content review included? Without that list, every provider means something different.
Why the content half gets skipped
Technical maintenance has a clear failure mode: the site goes down, and someone notices immediately. Content maintenance has no such alarm. A page with an old price still loads perfectly, so nobody treats fixing it as urgent — until a visitor mentions it, and by then the damage is already done.
That asymmetry is exactly why maintenance contracts default to covering only the technical half, even though it is usually the smaller source of lost trust.
Häufige Fragen
- Is website maintenance required by law?
- Not legally, but practically yes: without updates, security risk climbs; without content upkeep, trust declines.
- What does website maintenance include?
- Technical updates, backups, and uptime — plus regular review of prices, dates, opening hours, names, and years.
- Does my maintenance contract already cover content?
- Usually not. Most contracts only cover the technical half; ask specifically if content review is included.
- Who should own the content half?
- Usually the business itself, since only the owner knows whether a price or a date is still correct.