Drupal Maintenance
The security review we run on a website we inherit
Every few months a business comes to us with a website that somebody else built, often years ago, and a simple question: is it in good shape? Sometimes the question is prompted by a story in the news....
How security patches reach your site
Every so often a client forwards us a news article about a security vulnerability and asks whether their site is affected. It is one of our favorite messages to answer, because the answer is almost al...
What managed hosting actually means for your Drupal site
Managed hosting is one of those phrases that gets used for very different things. Sometimes it means a server with a control panel and a support address. Sometimes it means somebody will respond if th...
How we verify backups: retention, restore drills, and proof
There is a sentence we repeat internally whenever backups come up: a backup is only real once it has been restored somewhere. Until that moment it is a file you hope is complete, produced by a job you...
Performance is a habit, not a project
Launch day is the fastest most websites will ever be. The content is lean, the images are the ones the designers chose, the code is fresh, and everyone has just spent weeks paying attention to speed. ...
What we monitor on every site, and why silence is the goal
The best months in a hosting relationship are the ones where the client hears nothing from us at all. No alerts forwarded, no incident summaries, no requests to look at something. Just a website that ...
The difference between Drupal support and Drupal repair
Two very different services get sold under the name Drupal support. One is repair: a page goes down, a form stops sending, a ticket goes out, someone digs in, and the fire gets put out. The other is t...
What delaying Drupal updates really costs
A delayed update is a loan. The balance is small at first and the interest is invisible, so it never feels urgent. Six months later it is still invisible. Twelve months later the bill arrives all at o...
Have a Drupal question your team is trying to think through?
If you are weighing a rebuild, a migration, a support decision, or a technical direction change, we are happy to talk it through.