A current host, with room for the traffic of a newsletter, not a plan that sleeps the site. The login is yours. We keep a copy of how to reach it, and so do you.
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Launch week is the easy part to care about. The following Tuesday, a form breaks, a certificate expires, or an update takes the theme down, and the person who typed the address from the back of the book gets a warning or a blank page. Hosting and maintenance is that Tuesday. The site sits on an account you can log in to. We update it, test the form, and keep a backup we have actually restored once. A backup nobody has tried is a rumor.
Whose account
The host, the domain, and the email should be reachable by you. We can be a user on the account. We should not be the only user. Designers leave. Companies close. A site that dies with the freelancer is a site that was never handed over.
The domain registrar and the host are often two different companies. We will not move the domain into our name for convenience. If it is already in someone else's name, we help you move it into yours before we talk about themes.
The upkeep
A current host, with room for the traffic of a newsletter, not a plan that sleeps the site. The login is yours. We keep a copy of how to reach it, and so do you.
The padlock. When it lapses, browsers tell your readers the site is unsafe. Renewing it is a calendar item, not a crisis we discover from a reader's screenshot.
Automatic, kept off the same machine, and restored once in a test so we know the file opens. A zip we have never unpacked is not a plan.
The system and the theme, on a schedule, after a look at the book page. An update that knocks out the buy button is rolled back. We do not update on the morning of your launch and go to lunch.
A normal month
What people confuse it with
New pages, a new structure, a new way to find the book. That is a project. Maintenance keeps the current site standing. We will not quietly redesign it inside a monthly fee.
Posts, newsletters, a new book page when the next title lands. We can do that work. It is billed as the work, not hidden inside "the site is up."
If you sell signed copies, someone packs them. That is not hosting. A server cannot put a book in an envelope.
What we will not hold hostage
You should be able to fire us and keep the site. If the arrangement makes that impossible, it is a bad arrangement.
Before you hand over the login
Yes. The site, the domain, and an export of the pages are yours. We will say what is portable and what is tied to a specific host before you commit, not after you are angry.
Uptime, updates, a backup, a form test, and small breaks: a dead link, a plugin that failed, a certificate. A new landing page, a shop, or a redesign is a separate quote. The boundary is written down.
You and us. An alert that only we see means you find out from a reader. You should have the host's status, not a promise that we check our email.
Until the newsletter sends two thousand people to a book page and the cheap plan stalls. We pick a host that can take a launch. We do not put a book site on a free subdomain you will be ashamed to print.
If the site is already built
If the domain is in someone else's name, start with that. The theme can wait. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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