Wordpress hosting & maintenance (at a reasonable price)
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This has probably been done to death before, so sorry...
Someone with whom I am doing business with has a Wordpress website that got SEO spam hacked as a consequence of his current hosting/support basically charging him for maintenance and not actually doing anything. I noticed it was hacked because Google searches for the company brought up that tell-tale "This site may have been hacked" entry.
Anyway, long story short - some work on my part revealed that Google had been marking the site hacked since the beginning of the year, and he was running a pretty old version of Wordpress, with similarly old and probably vulnerable plugins. I cleaned it all up, save for about 600+ links that are still indexed by Google, but he now understandably wants to migrate his website elsewhere.
He's asked if I can maintain it but to be honest Wordpress maintenance is not really my forté and not the best use of my time. I don't want to charge the guy over the odds for periodical maintenance, and a fair amount wouldn't really be worth my time - to be brutally honest.
Long story short - I think he would be better off going with a company who specialise in this stuff, who can handle the hosting, email & maintenance of his website (he's still using a @hotmail.com address rather than a @companyname.co.uk, etc). Realistically I don't think he needs a very bespoke package - he just needs someone who will keep on top of Wordpress & plugin updates.
Anyone have any recommendations? I've heard TSOhost mentioned - and their prices are reasonable - but their Trustpilot reviews have suggested that they have gone downhill recently, and I've been waiting 15 minutes just to speak to a sales bod on their Live Chat, which doesn't instil much confidence...
Someone with whom I am doing business with has a Wordpress website that got SEO spam hacked as a consequence of his current hosting/support basically charging him for maintenance and not actually doing anything. I noticed it was hacked because Google searches for the company brought up that tell-tale "This site may have been hacked" entry.
Anyway, long story short - some work on my part revealed that Google had been marking the site hacked since the beginning of the year, and he was running a pretty old version of Wordpress, with similarly old and probably vulnerable plugins. I cleaned it all up, save for about 600+ links that are still indexed by Google, but he now understandably wants to migrate his website elsewhere.
He's asked if I can maintain it but to be honest Wordpress maintenance is not really my forté and not the best use of my time. I don't want to charge the guy over the odds for periodical maintenance, and a fair amount wouldn't really be worth my time - to be brutally honest.
Long story short - I think he would be better off going with a company who specialise in this stuff, who can handle the hosting, email & maintenance of his website (he's still using a @hotmail.com address rather than a @companyname.co.uk, etc). Realistically I don't think he needs a very bespoke package - he just needs someone who will keep on top of Wordpress & plugin updates.
Anyone have any recommendations? I've heard TSOhost mentioned - and their prices are reasonable - but their Trustpilot reviews have suggested that they have gone downhill recently, and I've been waiting 15 minutes just to speak to a sales bod on their Live Chat, which doesn't instil much confidence...
Cheers all. He knows enough to be able to log in and add basic content (it would seem), but beyond that he is in the dark.
Maintenance probably isn't that much work on this particular site. I updated all of the plugins and Wordpress itself to the latest versions (after taking a backup of course) and everything worked afterwards. His site is using a premium theme called Enfold but I'd be surprised if he had paid for it himself, more likely the hosting company/designers (the same company I believe) have either installed it illegitimately or have some kind of developer licence.
As Wordpress sites go it's very basic, so "maintenance" would consist of logging in periodically to update plugins & WP itself.
Maintenance probably isn't that much work on this particular site. I updated all of the plugins and Wordpress itself to the latest versions (after taking a backup of course) and everything worked afterwards. His site is using a premium theme called Enfold but I'd be surprised if he had paid for it himself, more likely the hosting company/designers (the same company I believe) have either installed it illegitimately or have some kind of developer licence.
As Wordpress sites go it's very basic, so "maintenance" would consist of logging in periodically to update plugins & WP itself.
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