Preventing Downtime of Your Website

Your own website and the hosting that comes with it are of course extremely important.Most people will therefore always try to keep their website online as much as possible.

There are several things you should do to make sure your website is online as much as possible.In this blog post we will also go through what exactly you can do to prevent as much downtime as possible.

Updates

Updates are extremely important for your website, especially for a CMS like WordPress.These updates often contain solutions for security vulnerabilities that can be exploited.

If you do not keep up with the updates, there is a good chance your website will go offline.It is therefore recommended to check WordPress once a month for updates.

Of course, you may not have time to check your website for updates.Fortunately, in this case you can use Managed WordPress hosting.

Each update is performed fully automatically.Think of WordPress itself, but also of the theme and plug-ins. This way your website will always be up to date.

Uptime tools

Of course you can't be available 24 hours a day to keep an eye on your website.This is why uptime tools are very useful, because they constantly keep an eye on this for you.

Uptime tools can show exactly when your website has been offline and for how long.For any business this is a must because you can then quickly intervene to see why your site is offline.

We recommend Uptime robot, which checks your websites every 5 minutes.Uptime robot is free to use for your websites and therefore highly recommended.

There is also a paid version available where your website is checked every minute.

Backups

Making backups is also part of preventing downtime on your website even though you may not see it right away.If, for example, you make a change that you can't revert back then this can be a major disaster.

Fortunately, the backup comes in handy, because if this happens you can restore it within seconds.This of course also applies to your database, if you regularly make a backup of this, almost nothing can go wrong.

If you have any questions about this, you can always see if a chat representative is available.If there is no one on the chat, you can always send a ticket to our helpdesk.