Written by: Jophiel Silvestrone
Jophiel Silvestrone has written 326 posts in the Tech Blog.
Jophiel grew up on a ranch in Paradise Valley, Montana near Chico Hot Springs. Working on the ranch instilled work ethic and self motivation. Filled with this drive, Jophiel started mowing the local school's yards twice a month throughout the summers, at the age of 12. He moved to Billings in 2004, where he has been deeply involved in the local business community ever since. A serial entrepreneur, Jophiel has ran multiple businesses in our local community. The first business, a janitorial and carpet cleaning company, founded in 2005, has employed over 50 locals. Moving on to the media industry, Jophiel and several partners founded Green Directory Montana in the spring of 2007. Green Directory's sustainability ranking software awarded points based on sustainable or "green" actions. These points counted towards a business's total "Green Score," which in turn ranked them against other businesses in their category and throughout the entire site. It also featured a limited edition print version distributed annually. A business acquisition allowed Jophiel to focus on new projects, and a few close business colleagues and Jophiel started Rocky Mountain Mr. & Ms. Magazine, a lifestyle publication for men and women in the Magic City. After a year and a half at the helm of RM3 Magazine, the business was purchased. He now runs a web development company SkyPoint Studios and fathers his son Jaoquin, who plays football, basketball, soccer, and is learning snowboarding from his dad. Recently, has expanded to locations in Havasu, Arizona & Vegas. SkyPoint Studios is a market leader in both Billings & Havasu and Jophiel is working on building that same level of market dominance in Vegas. Specialties: Extensive experience in online and offline business. Especially savvy at WordPress, and operate several sites, one example is the blog: skypointwebdesignbillingsmontana.com/tech-blog. Check out skypointwebdesignbillingsmontana.com for the latest projects from SkyPoint Studios.
Website maintenance is a necessity in the online business World. Many websites are running WordPress, which is database driven and has a rather large “engine” that makes everything work. This engine requires regular website maintenance to make sure it keeps going day in and day out without quitting.
WordPress is one of the most popular website platforms out today. It’s popular because of how robust the platform is and how many themes and plugins are available that allow the platform to morph into any type of particular website possible.
Owning a WordPress website is very similar to owning a vehicle in that it requires maintenance regularly to run properly. If you’re not maintaining your WordPress website, there’s a high probability that the site will get hacked and start to malfunction.
The maintenance required involves updating plugins to the latest code patch so that back doors and bugs can be eliminated. Hackers like to look for WordPress sites that are outdated and haven’t been patched and crack into the back end of the site and embed malware. This malware will cause issues to visitors or send out spam email, eventually crashing the website so it no longer works at all. A worst case scenario is the infestation is ignored for long enough to cause Google to ban the site in Google Search. This is when the site owner has a really big problem on their hands.
Cleaning up these issues can take a lot of resources. The database has to be checked for malware and the malware removed and this can be a painstaking task.
SkyPoint’s website hosting comes with complimentary updating, which most hosting companies don’t offer. Our complimentary updating means that at least once a month we are inside the back end of your website updating the software and making sure everything is running properly.
If something is broken or running out-of-sync we fix it and make sure the site is running smooth throughout the year. This gives our clients great peace-of-mind and we have never had any compromises or hacks with any of our websites.
We’ve helped plenty of people who have been hacked get their websites clean but they were not hosting with us. So if you’re looking for a reliable host that does the backend work for you, like similar to owning a car with a warranty, then check out our website hosting packages. You can learn more by filling out our contact form or calling 406-208-8733