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I pay a maintenance fee every month, but who fixes this?

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How do I check if recovery is included in my website management contract?

You can check discovery, notification, and recovery separately. The single word “management” is divided into four parts: discovering something that has stopped, notifying people, bringing it back to life, and fixing text and images, and contracts often only include the first two. According to BlueCanvas control level, the level of tapping on the site from outside is up to discovery and notification, and the level of reviving on behalf of a person starts from entering the server.

Key takeaways

  • I received a notification in the early morning that the site had stopped. Whose responsibility is it to revive? If you didn't know, that line isn't in the contract.
  • The word “management” actually means Discovery · Notification · Recovery · Edit text It is divided into four tasks: Receiving a notification only means that the first two things have returned.
  • All you have to do is look for three lines in today's contract. Who discovers it, how many minutes it takes to notify, and whose responsibility it is to recover?no see.

Notifications come automatically, recovery does not come automatically

At 2 a.m., I get a “Site not responding” notification. The surveillance team found that the site was unresponsive while knocking on the site, and notified them of this fact via text and email. Up to this point, the process progresses even if the person is not looking at the screen.

The problem is next. The boss who received the notification who to callIf it is not written in the contract, the site will be frozen until the person in charge arrives to work. The fact that you are paying a monthly maintenance fee does not answer this question.

Receiving notifications and reviving your site are two different tasks. The two must be listed separately in the contract.

The word “management” is divided into four tasks

If the management contract only says “including website management,” the scope is unknown. There are four things that actually happen, and the extent to which each contract is responsible is different.

What to dodetailIf this field is empty
findfinding what has stoppedCustomers tell us first
noticeinforming peopleEven if we find it, no one will know
restorationbringing it back to lifeI greet the morning while stopping
Edit lettersChanging text and imagesReceive quotations again on a case-by-case basis

Receiving a notification means that the first two things have worked. You must check separately where the third and fourth are written.

The place where recovery divides our rating table

Instead of quoting someone else's company contract, I used these four control levels that BlueCanvas actually sells. The amounts and ranges below are Control information pageThese values ​​are disclosed in , all prices are exclusive of VAT and are on a monthly basis.

ratingfindnoticerestorationEdit letters
Watch · 100,000 won per month
No access to customer servers
○○——
Guard · 300,000 won per month
Monitoring within the server
○○automatic restart—
Managed · 500,000 won per month
Delegation of authority to action
○○Action / Report—

It is not the number of items that determines the value. Entering the customer server It's one. The external tapping level doesn't install anything on the server, so all they can do is find it and let you know. Reviving services instead of people starts with getting into the server.

The rightmost column is empty for all three ranks. This part is written separately later.

Just because the time is written does not determine the scope.

It's easy to feel reassured when there are numbers on the contract. We also wrote down the times for each situation. If the site completely stops, detection occurs within 1 minute, notification occurs within 5 minutes, and the next action is to attempt an automatic restart and report the results.

But this table until whenI just say do whatIt does not replace . If the contract only says “response within one hour,” it depends on the reader whether it means answering the phone within that hour or reviving the site. A verb must be written next to the time to form a range.

Changing one line of business hours is not subject to government control.

This is the point of most frequent misalignment. Control is Only work on security and operation Includes. On our management information page, we first listed “Site function development/design modification” as an item that is not included.

So, changing a single line of business hours or changing a banner image is not included in any of the three levels. The work is a product related to website maintenance, and the amount is also calculated from a different table. When reviewing your management agreement Which products contain text correction?It is better to ask together.

Three lines to look for in today's contract

I'm not telling you to change companies. All you have to do is open the contract you have now and look at the three lines below.

  • find — Who checks the site, and every few minutes.
  • notice — Within a few minutes of detection, who will you notify?
  • restoration — Whose responsibility is it to revive it, and if it is outside the scope, how much is it per case?

If all three lines are written, the place to call the next morning is determined. If there are empty rows, those rows will be filled in the next contract.

The notification screens and calls shown in this video are all simulated situations and do not represent actual customer failures.

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I pay a maintenance fee every month, but who fixes this?

Receiving notifications and reviving your site are two different tasks. Please look for discovery, notification, and recovery in the contract.

Three lines of notification at 2 am

Detection at 02:14 and notification at 02:19 are processed automatically. 02:20 If the person responsible for recovery is not written in the contract, it is empty.

“Management” is divided into four tasks:

Discovery, notification, recovery, and text correction. This is the third time you will hear the answer, “Our contract includes surveillance.”

Where recovery differs on the rating table

The 100,000 won monthly level seen from the outside covers discovery and notification. Reviving things on behalf of people requires entering the server.

1 minute detection, 5 minutes notification, and out of range

Even if the time is written, if there is no “do something,” it is not a scope. There is no control over changing one line of business hours.

Three lines to look for in today's contract

Who discovers it, who notifies it in minutes, whose responsibility it is to recover, and if it's out of bounds, by how much.

Frequently Asked Questions

If the management contract only says “response within 1 hour,” does that mean that recovery will be done?

You can't read it like that. The time limit must be determined, and what is to be done must be separately written down. That same hour may be the time to answer the phone, start to determine the cause, or bring the service back to life. Even if you don't rewrite the contract, if you get a sentence from the person in charge explaining what needs to be done within that hour, you won't have to fight during the next failure.

Are there cases where surveillance that does not enter the server is sufficient?

there is. If the server is managed elsewhere and the person in charge of recovery has already been determined, it would be more organized to have a separate role to check and notify from the outside. On the other hand, if the site stops, inquiries and sales immediately stop, and if there is no one in charge of recovery, there is nothing that can be done in the early morning just by monitoring. What matters is not the name of the class, but whether the person responsible for reviving it is in the contract.

Isn’t editing the website text also included in the management fee?

It is often not included in the control contract. We first made it clear that BlueCanvas' control only includes work related to security and operation, and does not include site function development and design modifications. Changing text and images is a website maintenance product, and the cost is also calculated from a different table. You should check the contract to see if other companies' contracts have the same structure, and it is quicker to first ask which product includes word modification.

If automatic surveillance runs 24 hours a day, does that mean people will respond even in the early morning?

That's a different story. Automatic monitoring and automatic actions run 24 hours a day, but operations that require human judgment are often based on business hours. We also wrote on the control information page that 24-hour human presence control is not included, and if night response is necessary, it is added as an option. When you see the phrase “24 hours,” please first check whether it is machine time or human time.

What is included and what is excluded is left open for each grade.

We have written on the control information page what level discovery, notification, and recovery start, and what items are not included. Enter the number of sites and servers and the estimated cost will be displayed as well.

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