WP UMBRELLA WORDPRESS CARE
Keep your WordPress website updated, backed up and monitored with WP Umbrella, configured and managed for you by Big Wet Fish Hosting.
Our team gets a clearer view of your website’s health, a safer way to handle updates and another recovery option if something goes wrong.
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WHY ADD WP UMBRELLA?
WordPress websites need regular attention. Plugins need updating, backups need checking and somebody needs to know when the website is not behaving normally. WP Umbrella gives the BWF team additional tools to help manage that for you.
Update with a safety net
Keep plugins current while reducing the risk of blindly clicking “update”. Safe Update capabilities include restoration points, checks and rollback. Advanced workflows can also compare the site visually before and after an update.
Another route back
An encrypted, incremental WordPress backup layer alongside BWF’s hosting backups. Files and database are covered, with 50-day retention and options to restore a full site or selected parts.
Know when something isn’t right
Availability, response, PageSpeed and PHP error monitoring give our team better information when investigating website problems. Uptime checks can run as often as every minute.
A service from your hosting team
There is no new dashboard to learn. BWF connects your website to our WP Umbrella platform, configures the service, monitors it and handles the technical side for you.
SMART, SAFE UPDATES
Plugin updates matter, but they can occasionally introduce compatibility problems, PHP errors or unexpected layout changes. WP Umbrella gives our team a more considered workflow around the update.
Review the website and update requirements.
Create a restoration point for the component being updated.
Apply the WordPress plugin update.
Check status and, where the selected Safe Update mode supports it, compare the site visually.
Use rollback capabilities if an update causes a problem.
Checks, visual comparison and rollback depend on the Safe Update mode used for a particular update.
AN EXTRA RECOVERY LAYER
BWF already operates hosting-level backup systems. WP Umbrella adds an independent WordPress-level recovery option, managed through our team, so there is another practical route back after a problematic update, accidental deletion, broken plugin or site corruption.
After the initial backup, incremental backups focus on data that has changed, avoiding unnecessary work on your website. BWF can use the backup system to help restore an entire site, its database or individual files where appropriate.
It is an additional layer alongside your BWF hosting backups.
WEBSITE HEALTH, IN VIEW
Your website doesn’t have to tell you when something is wrong. Centralised monitoring gives the BWF team earlier visibility and useful context when something needs investigating, without waiting for you to be the first to notice it.
Monitoring helps identify problems; it is not a promise of instant resolution for every outage.
Website availability, with checks as often as every minute.
Response and Google PageSpeed monitoring.
Error monitoring to help uncover technical problems.
Plugin and website health visibility.
Expiry monitoring for important website services.
SIMPLE, MANAGED WORDPRESS CARE
The service is configured and managed by your BWF hosting team. The tools are useful; having someone take care of them is the point.
Prefer to manage it yourself? WP Umbrella can also be purchased directly from WP Umbrella. Direct subscriptions are self-managed; Big Wet Fish Hosting does not provide setup, configuration, management or monitoring for subscriptions purchased directly from the vendor.
A COMPLEMENTARY SERVICE
WP Umbrella helps us maintain, update, back up and monitor your website. For dedicated protection against vulnerable WordPress plugins and themes, BWF also offers Patchstack Protection.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
WP Umbrella is a WordPress management platform that provides tools for updates, backups, uptime monitoring, performance monitoring and website health management. BWF uses the platform to help manage participating customer WordPress websites.
No. WP Umbrella provides an additional WordPress-level backup and recovery option alongside BWF’s existing hosting backup systems.
No. They perform different jobs. WP Umbrella is primarily offered by BWF for WordPress maintenance, updates, backups and monitoring. Patchstack is BWF’s dedicated WordPress vulnerability protection service.
WP Umbrella’s Safe Update functionality provides restoration and rollback capabilities around WordPress plugin updates. Depending on the update mode being used, additional checks such as status monitoring and visual comparison can also help identify problems following an update.
No. When WP Umbrella is purchased through BWF, our team handles the setup and configuration.
No. The service is managed through BWF. The objective is to give our team better visibility into your website without giving you another system to constantly monitor.
Yes. You can purchase WP Umbrella directly from the vendor. Direct subscriptions are self-managed, and BWF does not set up, manage or monitor those subscriptions.
WORDPRESS CARE, HANDLED
Safer updates, additional disaster recovery backups and website monitoring, all configured and managed by Big Wet Fish Hosting.
£2.50 + VATper WordPress website / month