You build a website. You are quite satisfied with it. You are satisfied with your web designer too. It is hosted in an ISP shared server. The server is UP almost always. Then why does it need maintenance?
Yes, it does not need maintenance at all in above situation.
But unfortunately the above case will hold only true when you are not serious with your website and/or you don’t care about serving your visitors / clients by changing website information quite frequently and/or your website is daily visitor is below the threshold level to create problem.
If you want to make your website popular, you have to make arrangement to serve your visitors/clients with features better than your competitors does. You must promote your website such that the target people really visit your website. You must listen to your visitor’s problems and needs and act accordingly. Everything will make your website popular. This may lead to requirement for a high speed / configuration dedicated server along with load balancing to avoid regular server crash.
5000 database driven complex websites with negligible visitors can run perfectly well in a low end dedicated server, whereas several dedicated server can run out of system resources (CPU / RAM / BW etc) to run a single popular website.
Creating a standard website is easy. Creating a website targeted to solve specific business need can be difficult; it requires understanding your business too. But maintaining a website (that genuinely requires maintenance) is never an easy job.
When you come for website maintenance, it is quite clear that you have an existing website. Since you have an existing website, you got it build somewhere. Probably you were satisfied with your newly built website, but you started to find issues when you want to work with your web business. Following are the situations when you search to switch your existing development partner
- You do not find it easy to change something in your existing website. The developer revert you (if available at all) after you have lost your idea.
- Developer is available but too much costly.
- Your get too much hits. These results to crash your web server frequently. Nobody to help you.
- You see Database error; say “too much connection” error at peak time. You are really hopeless as your ISP says to take you dedicated server and manage it of your own.
- You need to take new dedicated server. But your web developer can’t provide this service.
- Your current developer can’t help you on business or web marketing point. But you need it badly to enhance your web sales.
- The code written in your website is not written thinking the future. You come to know it when another programmer tried to work on it.
- The pages in your website are not SEO friendly
- …
- … so many
We can help you. We can help you in the following areas …
Application maintenance
This will include day to small changes, bug fixing works, content management works. This will also include reporting any future threats from technical point view such that we can take proactive decision to save the server from crash. As for example, if your server CPU tends to cross a threshold level we smell and future disaster, we will inform you before hand.
Server administration
We can take contract for maintain your dedicated server remotely at Indian price. This will save your money from paying it to your hosting provider at high rate. This will be also quick and save your site from downtime. We will also plan and implement plan to uproot the issues that causes the regular server crash.
Technical support contract
We can take full technical support contract and help your clients/vendors/members associated with your website from technical point view. We can provide technical support via email and/or chat whenever requested.
Web marketing contract
We can take full / part web marketing contract for your website and help you to fetch business. For more details please see our web marketing services.
How do we do it?
- We will study your website from both technical and marketing point of view and list the issues related to the website.
- We will suggest strategies to get rid of the issues over time. In live site, strategy will be always taken keeping on thing in mind “We have to keep the site up and running”.
- The suggested strategy will cover all above four areas as per your preference. However if you are interested for certain services we will do accordingly.
How do we charge?
- We will charge in small amount to make the first time coding report. Though it depends on the size of the project, but minimum USD 250. This amount will be negligible compared to the actual time we will invest to study the project, database and other issues.
- There will be always some small jobs and some big jobs. To do the small jobs like bug fixing it is never possible to give you estimated price for each job at each occasion. Neither it is possible for us to keep record how much time it took. What we will do, we will try to calculate approx monthly hours to be spent on it and go for a monthly contract.
- For bigger job, we will give an approx time and price to do it.
- Please note that for live it is always takes more time to make changes. Also if coding is not written convention or organized (say code redundancy is there) it may take multiple times to change some code compared to quality codes.
How to proceed?
- Pay the initial amount
 
communicate with us regarding your website problems
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