WordPress is a really popular and comprehensive Content Management Platform and used by many of our customers. Keeping it up to up to date, secure and optimised can be a challenge. Our Hippo Managed WordPress solutions, takes care of all this for you, leaving you to concentrate on your business and not worry about your website.
Hippo Managed Wordpress
Full Package- Suitable for:
- Anyone who would rather concentrate on their business or venture, rather than worrying about their website.
- Services Included:
- Latest Wordpress installed & Configured
- 24/7 Monitoring, Updates and Backup
- Encrypted Offsite Backups (worth £7.99)
- 30 Day Backup Retention
- Performance Optimisation and Caching
- Website Security Suite
- Up to 4 Content updates p/m
- Monthly Manual Optimisation
- Monthly Manual Health Check
- Monthly Website Report
- Important Info:
- This service can be ordered as an addon when you purchase your web hosting with Hipposerve, or purchased separately for a third party WordPress installation, by clicking "Buy Now" below.
Managed WordPress Features
It’s no wonder WordPress is so popular. It’s huge flexibility beautiful of themes and useful plugins makes it a firm favourite with designers and businesses alike. It is estimated 75 million website use WordPress!
What Will We DO
Keeping Your Installation Safe and Secure
Instant Updates
Despite being popular and easy to use managing your WordPress installation can be a laborious task. To make sure it stays as secure as possible you have to maintain it properly. We monitor your site for updates and apply them asap.
Backing Up
Before any changes are made to your site a backup will be taken, just in case any update fails for some reason. You will be notified by email that the backup has been taken, and if the update was a success.
FREE Backups worth at least £7.99 per month (ex. VAT)
This backup includes:
- Nightly backups with a retention period of 30 days*
- Backups Stored off site on Amazon’s AWS servers.
- Pre-update backups. A backup taken before any update is made.
*Subject to our reasonable use policy. You can also opt to increase your data retention period for an additional £1.99 per 10 days. Larger sites that require more data storage space may also have to pay an additional fee.
Our Management
How we Manage Your WordPress Installation
We have experts in WordPress who have completed hundreds of successful installations.
New WordPress Install Setup
- Latest WordPress Installed with recommended plugins for speed and security
- Customers with an existing installation will have it upgraded to Managed WordPress
- Requested themes installed if required (if not base themes used).
- Admin user created for Hipposerve team.
- Admin user created for customer
- Website health check for speed and security
- Monitoring systems installed
- Monitoring and management setup
- Backups setup using an encrypted connection, off site to Amazon AWS S3
- Initial File and Database Backup
After Installation
- Site Monitored 24/7
- We can add up to 4 Content Posts p/m
- When updates are available a file and database backup is taken
- Site is then updated
- WordPress core updates included
- WordPress plugin updates included
- WordPress theme updates included
- WordPress translation updates included
- File and database backup also taken nightly.
- All backups are offsite and stored using Amazon’s AWS S3
- Monthly site/database optimisation
Domains
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.com Free
.co.uk Free
.org Free
.net Free
.org.uk Free
.me.uk Free
.net.uk Free
.plc.uk Free
.ltd.uk Free
.uk Free
.biz Free
.info Free
Free domains are only available when purchased with multi-year hosting plan.
The duration of the offer is for one year, whereafter they revert to their standard domain fee.
Hippo Managed WordPress – Pricing Information
The services provided are renewed automatically. If you do not wish to renew your service, you can cancel at any time inthe customer portal.
All prices exclude VAT @ 20%
Encrypted Backup Service
Our backups all all encrypted for your security before being remotely stored on Amazon's AWS secure storage.
Full backups are taken nightly and retained for 30 days. In addition a backup is taken prior to any site update being made. These backups are also retained for 30 days.
Should and issue arise with your website and you wish to restore it to an earlier point, contact our emergency team at support@hipposerve.co.uk or phone us on 0330 043 1502, and a representative will be able to restore your website to the required point.
The value of this free backup service (£7.99) is based on our standard back up prices and is based on reasonable use. Where the total 30 day backup set exceeds 10GB, you may be asked to pay an additional fee of £1.99 per additional 10GB per month.
If you wish to increase the backup retention period, this can be completed for an additional fee of £1.99 per addition 10 days, per month.
All prices quoted exclude VAT @ 20%
Content Update Service
Our Managed WordPress solution includes up to 4 content updates per month. Each month is defined as an invoiced month. If the 4 updates are not used within this period, they can not be rolled over into subsequent invoiced months.
For the purposes of this service Hipposerve defines a content update as:
- A blog post, including images
- Updating existing text or images
- Adding text or images to existing pages
- Updating or adding to other elements within the web site.
A content update does not include any additional design work, addition of web pages, updates to the menu or site structure, addition of plugins and set up of additional services. These services can be provided at our standard website development rate of £59 per hour, billable in 15 minute increments.
Additional updates, above and beyond the 4 included updates can be provided at our standard website development rate of £59 per hour, billable in 15 minute increments.
Hipposerve does not provide copy (text or images), which should be provided by the customer. When you wish to make an update, you should notify us at support@hipposerve.co.uk. and provide all the copy required.
Hipposerve makes every effort to proof the copy for spelling and grammatical errors, but the responsibility for the final check lies with the customer. Hipposerve can accept no responsibility for losses incurred, due to errors in any published update.
All prices quoted exclude VAT @ 20%
Purchasing Options
This managed service can be purchased with our hosting services, as a product add on.
It can also be purchased for existing WordPress installations either hosted with Hipposerve or a Third Party, by clicking on the "Buy Now" button.
After payment has been completed a representative from Hipposerve will contact you in order to set up your managed WordPress service.
In order to complete these services successfully we require Administration access to your WordPress installation. With regard to a third party installation, if it turns out we are unable to have this access, we will issue you with a full refund.
All prices quoted exclude VAT @ 20%