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Website maintenance for manufacturers: hosting, security and updates done properly
Your website is equipment. Like any equipment, it runs better on preventive maintenance than on a call when it's down. We host it, back it up, harden it and update it, then check your RFQ form and key pages and keep them fast. It's part of the manufacturing website design and build we do, month to month.
What's included
Six jobs, done on a schedule whether or not anything looks wrong.
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Managed hosting
Hosting sized for your site, with SSL and uptime monitoring.
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Backups
Scheduled and manual backups, kept off-site.
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Updates with front-end checks
Core, theme and plugin updates, then a check of your RFQ form and key pages so nothing broke quietly.
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Security hardening
Firewall, login protection and monitoring, with old plugins and shared logins cleared out.
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Speed work
Image compression, caching and Core Web Vitals fixes.
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Edits as your floor changes
A renewed cert, a new machine, a new process page, made by the team that built the site.
Speed and Core Web Vitals on a manufacturing website
Engineers open your site on a shop-floor tablet or a phone between meetings. Slow pages lose them before the spec sheet loads.
We measure Core Web Vitals every month and fix what drags: oversized photos of the floor, video that loads before anyone asks for it, plugins that add weight to every page. Speed also matters to search, which is why this work ties into our SEO.
Left alone vs looked after
| Left alone | Looked after | |
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| RFQ form | Breaks after a plugin update; nobody notices for weeks | Tested after every update |
| Certifications page | Shows last cycle's expiry date | Updated when the cert renews |
| Security | Old plugins, shared logins | Hardened and monitored |
| Backups | The last one is whenever someone remembered | Scheduled and kept off-site |
| Speed | Slows as images pile up | Measured monthly |
| Capability pages | Say what the floor did three years ago | Updated when a machine, process or cert changes |
Keeping certifications and capabilities current
Maintenance covers what the site says as well as how it runs. When a certificate renews, the new date goes on the quality page and the old PDF comes down. When a new machine lands, it gets its envelope on the process page. When you stop offering a service, the page comes down and its address points somewhere useful.
Send the change to us and we make it. Our guide to certifications on your website covers what to show and how to word it.
Questions about website maintenance
What happens if the site goes down?
Monitoring alerts us and we fix it.
Do updates ever break things?
They can. That's why we check your RFQ form and key pages after every update instead of assuming they still work.
How do you keep a manufacturing website secure?
Current software, a firewall, login protection, no shared logins, and monitoring. Old plugins and reused passwords are common ways in, so those come first.
Who owns the site?
Ownership terms are set out on How we work.
How to buy
Start with the free Buyer's-Eye Audit: write the RFQ you most want to win, and we'll show you where a buyer would shortlist you or drop you. Care and hosting run inside a program, after a paid Buyers Blueprint.