Is Your Business Website Worry-Free? Probably Not!

Most owners of small to medium sized businesses (SMB) aren't technical website experts. Yet they typically want three things:

1. A website they can afford to create or have built for them.
2. A website that fulfills their business needs, and can be easily updated when necessary.
3. A website that is stable, safe, and can be technically "worry-free" to maintain.

All three are critically important for business success. But the focus of this discussion is on item #3 - website stability and security on an ongoing basis.

The short answer to this need is that it largely depends on two factors:

1. What platform is the website built on?
2. Who is responsible for technical & security maintenance of the website?

The question of which platform a website is built on presents a very interesting conundrum. It turns out that the most popular website platform in the world - Wordpress - is also both one of the most vulnerable to security threats and one that requires the most ongoing vigilance to adequately maintain it. 

For this very reason, at Doggone Good Technology, we don't build websites on the Wordpress platform. Not because we can't, but because we don't think it's the best option for our clients. Don't get us wrong - Wordpress is very popular. Popular because it's powerful, comparatively easy to work with, and easy to train clients to use. It powers over a third of the worlds websites, so it obviously has good things going for it! The problem is that both its core code, and especially its "plug-ins" (from which it draws much of its real-world capabilities) are drawn from multiple, inconsistent developers. This leads to a situation where both updates and maintenance are vulnerable to technical "gaps". But, don't just take our word for it .. .. .. .. you can see recent, real-world, objective examples of technical concerns HERE and HERE. This means that there's a real need for significant, ongoing, vigilant updating and maintenance of sites developed in Wordpress. Especially if they use lots of plug-ins to power the functions of the website. 

We prefer to work in a platform that is consistent, solid, and safe. So we do.

Here's the bottom line:

• If your business website was built in Wordpress and the developer just "turned it over to you" to update and maintain, you need to be concerned about YOUR ability to keep it technically safe and up-to-date.
• If your business website was built in Wordpress and you pay the developer to maintain it, you're as safe as the capabilities and attention-to-detail of your developer.
• If you don't know what platform your business website was developed in (or if you did a DIY build in a "consumer" platform like Wix, Weebly, Go Daddy, etc) you need to ask questions & get answers.
• If we built your website, it was done on a proprietary platform that is specfically designed for web designer/developer agencies . . . . with technical excellence and safety in mind. 

For more info, just reach out to us at contact@doggonegoodtech.com