WordPress maintenance
How much WordPress maintenance a static copy takes away.
A maintenance plan pays for updates, backups, uptime checks and the afternoon an update goes wrong. Most of that exists because WordPress answers every visitor. With a static copy in front of it, the public never reaches WordPress — and what is left to maintain is smaller, and far less urgent.
A copy that works, not just its HTML
Writing a site out as static HTML keeps what is in each page and the files it names. What a page asks for once it is open — the data a script fetches, a file another file loads, a redirect from an old address — is not among them, and that is where exported sites quietly stop working.
We keep every answer your site gave while its pages were opened, and give the same answer again: the same content, the same kind of file, the same redirect. That is why the copy behaves like your site instead of only looking like it — and why you can check it yourself, side by side, before you decide anything.
What stops being necessary
- Racing to install a security release: an outdated plugin can no longer be reached through the pages people read.
- Caching and speed plugins: the pages are finished files already.
- Downtime after a failed update: the copy keeps being served whatever WordPress is doing.
- Wondering what changed: every publish lists the pages that were added, changed or removed, so a page nobody meant to change shows up rather than hiding.
What stays yours
WordPress itself is still online, because that is where you edit. Keep it updated and locked down as you do now. The difference is that an update you have not got round to cannot reach a visitor, and one that breaks WordPress breaks your editing, not your website.
Questions people ask
- Can I cancel my maintenance plan?
- That depends on what it covers. The part that protects visitors and keeps the public site up is what the copy takes over. WordPress itself still needs its updates; whether you do those yourself or keep someone for them is up to you.
- What does it cost?
- Trying it costs nothing and needs no account. There is no paid plan yet; when there is one, you will see what it costs before anything about your site changes.
See it on your own site
About twenty seconds, and nothing to sign up for. You will have your site and the copy open next to each other before you decide anything.