FN 09 · August 10, 2026
The manifesto behind the rescue practice: abandonment — not hackers, not hosting — is the thing that actually kills small organizations' websites, and every part of Dead North exists to make it survivable.
FN 07 · August 10, 2026
The real Upper Midwest maintenance price distribution, surveyed from published pricing pages: the $40–$395 commodity band, the $475–$3,950 professional band, and the $2,500+ Drupal specialist tier.
FN 06 · August 10, 2026
The clauses a website maintenance agreement actually needs — patch windows, tested backups, exit terms — and the seven red flags that predict a bad year.
FN 04 · August 10, 2026
Drupal maintenance pricing in 2026, with actual numbers: $99 commodity plans, $350–$1,500/mo small-studio programs, and $16k+/yr agency care — what each tier really includes.
FM · August 10, 2026
If nobody has edited your site in a year, the CMS is all cost and no benefit. When a static site is the honest answer, and the questions that tell you which side you're on.
FM · August 10, 2026
If your website takes payments, runs on a CMS, or has ever broken during an update — yes. What staging actually is, and the low-cost ways to get one.
FM · August 10, 2026
Security releases are public disclosures: every fix tells attackers exactly where to look on unpatched sites. Why patch speed matters more than site size.
FM · August 10, 2026
A store is a website plus money in motion — payment APIs, tax rules, shipping rates, and PCI obligations that keep changing whether or not anyone maintains the site.
FM · August 10, 2026
A backup is only real once it's been restored. The 3-2-1 rule for websites, what a complete backup must contain, and the one test that separates hope from coverage.
FM · August 10, 2026
The five jobs a real maintenance plan covers — updates, backups, monitoring, small fixes, and a human who answers — and the questions that reveal a hollow one.
FM · August 10, 2026
The decay curve of an unmaintained site: nothing for months, then forms and integrations quietly fail, then security exposure — slow at first, sudden at the end.
FM · August 10, 2026
A calm order of operations for an outage: confirm it's really down, check the boring causes first — domain, SSL, hosting bill — and know when it's time to call someone.
FM · August 10, 2026
Managed platforms, cloud servers, and budget shared hosting — what each actually buys you, and why the answer follows from who maintains the site, not from the price.