Site Management Is More Than Just Updates

“Managed site hosting”, “managed server hosting”, “managed updates” — you hear it everywhere. But there is so much more than updates, backups, and monitoring needed to run a successful agency full of sites.

At mySites.guru, we manage tens of thousands of Joomla and WordPress sites, backed by over a decade of experience within the Joomla project, delivering architectures for large companies, small companies, and digital agencies.

There is so much more to website management than running bulk updates, backups, and checking for uptime.

Plenty of services exist for WordPress, and a handful for Joomla — but very few handle both platforms the way mySites.guru does. Even the big players like GoDaddy have bought companies like ManageWP and rebranded it GoDaddyPro (WordPress only, though).

Building a tool that does mass updates, backups, and uptime is table stakes. We’ve watched companies attempt it as a side project with contract help. The hard part is everything else.

So why is mySites.guru different?

If you run a digital agency or freelance, you need a complete solution. Not just another updates dashboard.

Site management is hard work. When a customer calls saying their site is hacked, they blame you, not their underinvestment. We get it.

Best practice is the key to preventative maintenance. But it’s hard to keep on top of, hard to consistently apply to all sites — especially when you’ve moved on to the next build or customer, and new attacks keep appearing.

When a site gets hacked, you need the tools to investigate and fix the hack yourself, and you need someone to escalate to for bigger issues. We’ve got your back on that too.

Handling 100–1,000 websites is a full-time job. Or at least it should be. Many agencies can’t spare a person to do it full-time, and many customers don’t want to pay for maintenance — until everything goes wrong.

You don’t always have time to check every setting on every site, especially the one the customer still hasn’t paid for.

Your datacenter and VPS provider only care about power and connectivity. They don’t help with site problems, hacks, or brokenness. It’s never their problem.

Sometimes you just need an expert who can talk the talk with your web host and get them to actually make changes.

What mySites.guru gives you beyond updates, backups, and uptime

From day one, mySites.guru has been an unlimited service at a set price for unlimited sites, with a toolset that goes well beyond what’s listed on the features page.

Every new customer gets a free month of service so you can use the tools on your own sites and see what’s really going on under the hood.

The Snapshot

The mySites.guru Snapshot instantly checks your site against a large number of best practice criteria and reports results within seconds, with links to explore any issues found.

The Audit

The mySites.guru Audit goes deeper than the Snapshot. It compiles a list of every file in your webspace and checks each line of code, looking for hacks and malicious patterns.

What we check for improves daily as more crowdsourced data is added. A hack found on someone else’s site gets added to the detection rules, so your next audit catches it too.

We don’t “scan” your site from the outside like some other vendors do. We look at every single line of code and every image, flag anything suspect, and give you tools to dig into the results. That same deep scan also turns up hidden files most site owners don’t know exist — dot-files, leftover scripts, and system files that can become real problems.

Learn More Pages

Every tool is well documented. The mySites.guru Learn More pages explain what we looked for, what we found, why it matters, and link to external resources if you want to go further.

And much more

Here’s a quick rundown of what else mySites.guru offers. The Features page has everything, or get in touch if you have questions.

A Single Dashboard for Unlimited Sites • Best Practice Checks • Snapshots •Suspect Content Tool • Periodic Auditing • Find hacks and backdoors • Rock Solid Backups • Toggle Fixes • One Click Login • End-Of-Life Support •Version Tracking • Scheduler • Generate Screenshots • SSL Checks • White Label Client Reporting • Supports WordPress & Joomla, even very old versions • Mass Plugin Installer • Uptime Monitoring/Downtime Alerts Explained/Real-Time Alerts • Action Logs •Extension Management/Tracking • Team Accounts • Lighthouse Performance Audits • Automatic Updates • Mass Updates & Upgrades • Tagging • Real Time Alerting • Fix a Hack • One Click Backup • Security Headers Checks •Unlimited Backup Schedules • Public Uptime Status Pages