Site Maintenance and Security Hardening (SMASH) keeps your website components current while monitoring and adapting your security stance against hackers. SMASH Hosting implements security best-practices with a vetted web host as a combined monthly subscription service.
WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) that requires constant updating. These updates can cause problems when a component interferes with some other component, or if the update fails for some reason. Your SMASH subscription allows me to handle all updates and conflicts that might occur at no additional cost.
- Pricing is simple: $100/mo for simple websites, higher subscription rates for more complex websites. Payments can be on a monthly subscription by credit card, quarterly by check or some other combination that works best for you.
- This is web hosting that keeps your plugins and themes up to date, and provides for troubleshooting at no charge if conflicts arise.
- Security includes obfuscated login paths, tracking visitor behavior, and blocking known attack originators, including brute force attacks, requests for non-existent pages and files, and shutting down back boors.*
- Websites are backed up daily by the web host, along with optional manual backups I sometimes perform before an update.
- I welcome websites I didn't build and do not charge for migrations.
- Websites I didn't build sometimes incur an assessment fee before I will agree to put them on my SMASH service.
- Some clients prefer that I host their websites under my own agency account, while others like the control of owning the web hosting but having me perform all services. If the web hosting gets setup under my agency account and I become unavailable for some reason, a simple process can be kicked off so that you get full ownership of your web hosting. Either way, I am your first line of support.
- SMASH and web hosting can be engaged independently. I provide the SMASH service for many websites I didn't build.
The only web hosts I trust, and from which we will select, are:
- baremetal.com
- siteground.com
- getflywheel.com
- wpengine.com
*Please review my Standard Contract for limitations and indemnification.