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SSL, uptime and version history
What renews itself, what we watch every night, what we deliberately do not promise, and how you get an earlier version of a page back.
Three separate questions get asked together, so they are answered together here. One of the three has an answer you may not expect.
SSL#
The certificate is ours to keep alive.
- It renews itself. There is no date for you to diarise.
- It covers your domain once the DNS change is in.
- There is nothing to buy. SSL is inside the plan, not an add-on.
Uptime#
We check, and we show you the result.
- Your site is checked every night and the portal shows a plain up or down.
- We do not print an uptime percentage. We have not published one and we will not until we can evidence it.
- If a site we host is down, email [email protected]. A person answers and it is ours to fix.
Version history#
This is how you get something back.
- Every change is staged before it is live and every change is revertible.
- Reverting is a change like any other, so it stages before it goes live too.
- The step by step is on preview, stage and revert.
What we do not offer#
Said plainly, because the absence matters more than a soft answer.
- There is no customer-facing site backup product. Version history is how you go back, not a snapshot archive you restore from.
- Your own copy is the export. Ask for one whenever you like; it is free and it is described on move your site somewhere else.
- On a self-hosted template, backups are your host's business and yours.
What we do run for ourselves#
Disclosed because it is your data sitting in it.
- Our own databases are backed up nightly into Cloudflare storage.
- The full detail is in the privacy policy, which is the document that governs it.
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Not covered here? The FAQ answers what it costs and what you own, and [email protected] reaches a person.