Keeping Your Website Healthy: 7 Regular Checks for Bhutanese Organisations
For many organisations in Bhutan, the website is the first place people go to check opening hours, read announcements, download forms or find a phone number. Yet once a site is launched, it is easy to forget about it until something breaks. A short routine of regular checks keeps your website accurate, secure and useful. Here are seven checks any office, school, hotel or business can build into its calendar.
1. Make sure it actually loads
Open your website on a computer and on a phone every week, ideally using both Wi-Fi and mobile data. Slow pages, error messages or a blank screen are easy to miss if nobody looks. If visitors cannot reach your site, they will usually assume you are closed or out of date rather than tell you.
2. Keep the content current
Old notices, expired job vacancies, past events and outdated contact numbers quietly damage trust. Assign one person to review key pages each month: the home page, contact details, services, prices you publish yourself and any announcements. Remove or archive what no longer applies.
3. Apply updates to the platform and plugins
Content management systems such as WordPress, and the themes and plugins added to them, receive regular updates that fix bugs and security weaknesses. Leaving them unpatched is one of the most common ways websites get compromised. Schedule updates, test the site afterwards, and remove plugins you no longer use.
4. Check your domain and security certificate
Know when your domain name and hosting renew, and who receives the renewal reminders. Confirm that your site opens with https and a padlock in the browser. An expired domain or certificate can take a site offline or show visitors an alarming warning page, even when nothing else is wrong.
5. Review user accounts and passwords
Look at who has administrator access to your website. Staff who have left, temporary accounts created for a vendor, or shared logins should be removed or changed. Use strong, unique passwords and turn on two-step verification wherever your platform supports it.
6. Keep a backup you can restore
Make sure the website files and database are backed up automatically and stored somewhere separate from the live server. A backup only counts if it works, so occasionally confirm that it can be restored. This turns a hacked or broken site from a crisis into an inconvenience.
7. Watch forms, comments and messages
Submit your own contact form now and then to confirm messages still arrive in the right inbox. If your site accepts comments, moderate them regularly: delete spam, and respond to genuine questions promptly. An unanswered enquiry is a lost opportunity, and a page full of spam links looks abandoned.
Make it a habit, not a project
None of these checks takes long on its own. Put them on a simple monthly checklist, name who is responsible for each one, and keep a short log of what was done. Small, regular attention prevents most of the problems that lead to emergency fixes.
How eDruk can help
Since 2004, eDruk Private Limited has been designing and developing websites, web applications and software for organisations in Bhutan. If you would like help reviewing your website, setting up updates and backups, or planning a new site, our team is happy to talk it through with you.
Email edruk@edruk.com.bt, call +975 2 332277, or visit www.edruk.com.bt.