Anyone who has his or her own website will probably find it important that it remains online at all times.You must therefore maintain your own website properly if you want it to stay online.

Updating your content management system, plug-ins and of course the theme of your website.One of the reasons you need to do this is because otherwise your website could be abused.

In this blog post, we're going to go over how best to maintain your own websites.

keep everything up to date

If you are familiar with hosting then you will probably already be familiar with this.When you don't update your website you run the risk of getting security leaks.

You will also notice that your website can be a lot slower.The updates are not only security updates but also updates that make your plug-ins, for example, faster.

This also applies to the PHP version that your website uses.

If you always use the latest version of PHP you will have a much safer website.These new versions contain better security for your website.

Backups

Of course it is also important that you always have a backup of your website.If things go wrong you can restore the backup within moments.

Of course it is also important that you know how to make a backup of your website.If you use WordPress Hosting then you will have several plug-ins for this.

One of the plug-ins that you can easily create backups with is Up-draft.With this, you only need to select where exactly you want the backup to be stored and then it will back it up here.

Of course it is also possible to make a backup via an FTP client.Keep in mind that you still need to make a manual backup of your database.

Deleting content

It is also possible that you have plug-ins or other content on your website that you no longer use.It is advisable to always remove this content.

Not only does it take up more space than necessary but it can also be a security risk.For this reason it is always recommended to always remove unused content or plug-ins.

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