by Richard Thorne | Oct 27, 2026 | Hosting & Maintenance
Short answer: to check if your website is down, try it on your phone with the wifi off, then use a free “is it down” checker. If both fail, screenshot the message on the screen. It usually points to who can fix it: your domain company, your host, or...
by Richard Thorne | Oct 20, 2026 | Hosting & Maintenance
Short answer: when an SSL certificate expires, nothing on your website is lost or changed. Visitors see a full-page warning that the connection is not private, and new visitors have no reason to click past it. Renewing the certificate removes the warning. Many hosts...
by Richard Thorne | Oct 13, 2026 | Hosting & Maintenance
Short answer: if your domain name expired recently, it is probably not lost. A .co.uk keeps working for about 30 days, then your website and email stop, and you can renew it for up to 90 days. For a .com, timings depend on your registrar. Renew it today with the...
by Richard Thorne | Oct 6, 2026 | Hosting & Maintenance
Short answer: choose website maintenance services by the person, not the package. You want someone who replies when you email and tells you what they did each month. Whoever it is, your domain, hosting account and website login should stay in your own name, so you can...
by Richard Thorne | Sep 28, 2026 | Hosting & Maintenance
Short answer: a website care plan is a monthly service where someone looks after your website for you: updates, backups, security checks, uptime monitoring, and a person to email when something goes wrong. It is largely the same thing as a maintenance plan. What...
by Richard Thorne | Sep 21, 2026 | Hosting & Maintenance
Short answer: neglected WordPress sites rarely crash. They decay quietly. Contact forms stop sending with no error message, plugins drift out of date, and the site gets slower. The damage is usually invisible from the outside, which is why most people find out from a...
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