Hosting & Website Care
A nonprofit website shouldn't become another system your team has to constantly worry about.
Everybody Connects helps organizations keep websites available, updated, backed up, monitored, secure, and performing properly.
Good website care happens long after launch day.
After the website launches
Hosting keeps a website online. Website care helps keep it healthy.
Websites are living systems.
Software changes. Browsers change. Content changes. Security threats change. Domains expire. Certificates renew. Integrations break. Backups need to work when they're actually needed.
Without ongoing attention, even a well-built website can slowly become unreliable, insecure, or difficult to maintain.
Everybody Connects helps nonprofits manage the technology behind their websites so their teams can focus on the work the website exists to support.
What's the difference?
Hosting provides the infrastructure required for a website to be available on the internet. Depending on the project, hosting-related assistance may involve:
Website care focuses on maintaining the website after it is running. Depending on the website, that may involve:
Already have hosting you're happy with? That's okay.
You may not need to move it. Everybody Connects can evaluate what you already have and determine whether the website simply needs better maintenance, monitoring, or support.
Ongoing website care
Updates & Maintenance
Many websites rely on content management systems, frameworks, themes, extensions, integrations, or other software that changes over time.
Updates should be handled thoughtfully rather than automatically assuming every update is risk-free.
Ongoing maintenance may include
Backups & Recovery
Backups provide an important recovery option when websites experience technical failures, accidental changes, corruption, or other problems.
The goal isn't simply to create backups. It's to have a practical path to recovery.
Depending on the website, backup planning may include
Monitoring & Availability
Website problems aren't always obvious to the organization running the site.
Monitoring can help identify issues before someone happens to discover them manually.
Potential monitoring may include
Security & Protection
Websites are public-facing systems and should receive ongoing security attention.
Everybody Connects focuses on practical steps that can reduce risk and improve an organization's ability to respond when problems occur.
No website can be guaranteed to be immune from attack.
Explore Security & ProtectionWebsite care may include practical measures such as
Performance & Optimization
Website performance affects visitors across different devices, internet connections, and geographic locations.
Depending on the website, performance work may include
Domains, DNS & SSL
Domains, DNS records, and SSL certificates sit behind the scenes, but problems with them can make a website unavailable or disrupt other organizational services.
Your domain is an important organizational asset.
Whenever practical, nonprofits should maintain appropriate ownership and administrative control of their domain rather than relying entirely on an outside provider.
Everybody Connects may help with
When something breaks
Everybody Connects may be able to help investigate website problems and determine an appropriate next step.
Tell Us What's HappeningHosting should fit the website
The right hosting approach depends on what the website does, how much traffic it receives, how it's built, who maintains it, its security requirements, and the organization's available resources.
Moving hosting is not automatically the solution.
If the organization's existing hosting works well, there may be no reason to replace it.
Your website. Your organization.
Whenever practical, important website assets should remain under organizational ownership or clearly documented administrative control.
Everybody Connects' goal is to help organizations avoid situations where critical technology becomes inaccessible because only one outside person or vendor controls it.
Good technology support shouldn't hold your organization hostage.
How it works
We learn how the website is currently built, hosted, maintained, and managed.
We identify immediate concerns, ongoing maintenance needs, and potential areas for improvement.
We discuss practical options based on the website and organization's needs.
Approved improvements, migrations, maintenance, or monitoring are put into place.
When ongoing care is part of the project, we establish what will be maintained, monitored, or reviewed over time.
That's not necessarily a problem. Everybody Connects can potentially work alongside existing providers, evaluate the current environment, or focus only on the areas where your organization needs help.
Our goal isn't to replace technology that's already working. It's to help solve the parts that aren't.
Need more than maintenance?
If the current website is outdated, difficult to use, inaccessible, or no longer supports your organization's needs, maintenance alone may not solve the underlying problem. Everybody Connects can also help with website redesigns, modernization, development, and migrations.
Our service model
Everybody Connects provides qualifying nonprofit technology services using a donation-based model.
Organizations are encouraged to contribute when they're able to, while limited financial resources should not prevent a nonprofit from requesting assistance.
Hosting, domains, software, cloud infrastructure, premium tools, or other third-party services may involve costs charged by outside providers.
We'll help separate what your organization actually needs from what someone simply wants to sell you.
Request Website HelpTell us what's working, what's not, and what you're worried about. We'll start by understanding the website you already have.
