A website continues to depend on current information, supported software and people who can resolve a problem. Maintenance brings those responsibilities into an understandable arrangement. We review the existing platform, hosting, accounts and known issues before defining the work, including sites originally built by another team.
The scope can include content-update support, appropriate dependency maintenance, backup and recovery review, important journey checks and a record of completed and outstanding work. Access, platform condition and external services affect what can be supported. Any initial repair or improvement needed before routine care should be identified.
A maintenance plan is distinct from a major redesign, a new application feature or an open-ended emergency commitment. Agree included work, request capacity, review responsibilities and urgency arrangements in writing. The business should know where to raise an ordinary change and how a consequential issue is handled without relying on an undefined promise of support.

