• You take backups and security into your own hands
• You handle your own software updates
• You’ll pay a minimum of $250 per hack repair
• If you want a site assessment and lockdown, you’ll pay $175
• You’ll pay the full renewal fee for any other plugins on your site that use our license
• You’ll pay our regular hourly rate for content updates or other site tweaks

Simply put: There are people out there who are bored or have an agenda and spend their time trying to hack websites. They don’t know who you are or what your site is all about. And they don’t care. They just want to inject their spam, malware, or use your website as a gateway to hack in to your web host. It's a global epidemic. They. Never. Stop.

Perhaps they could be doing it to get practice for hacking a site that they can actually benefit from (i.e. steal credit card or other personal information). So, even if that type of information isn’t on your site, they still may use yours as target practice.

There’s no rhyme or reason behind the madness…they are just people who purposely want to commit crimes and be evil.

And if that's not enough...if your website is not hosted with a reputable host (in which case we will strongly encourage you to switch), you may be susceptible to more security risks.

Websites can be hacked through security vulnerabilities on their hosting platform; a security issue in their WordPress theme or a plugin; or because of a weak username or password.

Your hosting company should support the latest versions of PHP and MySQL; have experience with and optimized for running WordPress; scan for malware and intrusive files; and have knowledgeable and accessible staff. (Another reason to use our preferred host.)

If you do not update your website’s software (WordPress, your theme, your plugins), you are more susceptible to attacks. This is why it is so important to stay up to date. WordPress and most themes and plugins release major updates a couple times a year and minor updates more frequently. New features might be included in the major updates, and security bugs and errors are released in minor updates. Bottom line: updates are important…and they need to be done!

Read this post for more security tips.

No. That is not a thing. That’s why companies like MasterCard have full-time employees dedicated to cleaning up hacks and defending against them.

What it will do is make your site much harder to hack. We'll monitor activity so that we'll know if there is an attack happening, provide fixes and clean up if a hack does happen, and a few other perks (as shown above).

We clean up the hack, we adjust the security, we deal with the blacklists (if any), and put your online home back in order so you are back in business. Easy peasy. We do the work so you can relax and keep doing what you do best.