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Website backups, restores and uptime: what ‘looked after’ should mean
What a website backup should hold, where it should live, who holds the keys, and how to know a restore works, with the questions to ask any website provider.
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Website care and maintenance: what a business should expect
What looking after a website involves once it is live: backups that have been restored, monitoring that notices an outage, the checks to run before you sign a new site off, and what a maintenance plan should cover before you agree to one. For owners who have a site and want it kept fast, safe and current.
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Brother Sylvester: a family-first history site, rebuilt when the store and Academy closed
When the store and Academy closed, we rebuilt Brother Sylvester's site on Astro: 92 stories, a history library and school bookings, with every old address kept.