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Questions tagged [site-maintenance]

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Good tool to crawl my site and help me find dead link and unlinked files

I have a pretty big legacy site with literally thousands of PDFs that are sometimes accounting for in a database, but often are just links on the page, and are stored in most every directory on the site. I have written a php crawler to follow all…
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Open Source website backup tool suggestions

I'm looking for an Open Source website backup tool. I'm more interested in Open Source so I can make changes if need be and possibly contribute to the software. Automatic scheduled FTP backups from mutiple web servers. MySQL backups from…
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Using WordPress for large collaborative site

I work for a government agency, and we're thinking about creating a new, fairly large site using WordPress as the platform. It would involve allowing quite a few people around the state access to the site as editors, bringing together an even larger…
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Deploying websites with a 'Maintenance Mode' switch

I'm working on a site where I need to add a 'maintenance mode' and became curious to see what methods people use to deploy their sites to live, when there is a required downtime. Some ideas that come to my mind are symlinked folder switching,…
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How to close a website for a few months without affecting SEO?

I have a website with around 5,000 organic traffic per month. My hosting company asked me to move to VPS because my site is using too many resources. I can't go VPS now because of financial problems. So I thought of closing my website for a few…
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How should I evaluate how long a website can be down for regularly scheduled maintenance?

I'm working on a system that is going to need some regularly scheduled maintenance for: upgrades and releases regular data migration and database maintenance How should I determine how long these maintenance windows can be and how often they can…
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Any solutions for managing all properties from one system?

I'm looking for a solution to manage/keep track of the different domains and sites I maintain. I manage multiple domains with numerous sites, subdomains, many instances of CMS and other web apps, and keeping track of many of the details involved…
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How much time do you spend for SEO?

There are basic rules to follow for SEO, and then there are labor intensive site promotion activities that you can do on a daily basis that add tiny increments that over time eventually add up to a boost. The ROI curve for these time-intensive…
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How to charge for web maintenance services

Over the years we have developed many websites for clients. The issue we currently deal with is having individual clients wanting minor changes or enhancements to their site. Each client doesn't contact us often, but collectively this adds up into a…
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Migrate user accounts out of system with hashed passwords

I have a system with a few thousand user accounts that I need to migrate to a new platform. The system stores a hashed password, not encrypted or (thank goodness) plain text. Also, I don't have the details of the hashing readily available. What…
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What to do when web server hosting is down?

Update: As of Oct 21, 8AM EST, it's still down. I'll call Rackspace again My web server is hosted by Rackspace Mycloud and today Oct 20, 2015 there is an unexpected outage. I have Rackspace's $11/month option. All my files are on that server, which…
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When updating root index.html how to show users that site is on maintenance now?

I'm working on a project. I can upload a site files to the web server. I have a site which is running. I want to update my site but I know visitors are coming 24 hours a day. So, how could I update my site without losing visitors? When I visit big…
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Using Extension:Maintenance to generate sitemap MediaWiki

I'm using MediaWiki 1.19.2. I want to generate a sitemap.xml. Here's the documentation. We have to use a maintenance script to generate the sitemap.xml. So I use the extension Maintenance but I don't know the details, how to do? Any one know?
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How can I use Google Analytics to tell what the least busy time of the week is on a website?

I'm needing to do some maintenance on a site, and I'd like to time it for the least busy time of the week. I know how to make a custom report to show what the least busy day is, as well as what the least busy hour of a (generic) day is, but I'm not…
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How to have website (on IIS) return code 503 yet still provide local development

How could I have my website running on IIS return the HTTP Header Code of 503 to the public, and at the same time be able to allow developer to continue developing it locally? For example, if I use app_offline.htm, it will yield the 503 error to ALL…
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