Your Monthly TYPO3 Maintenance Checklist

We never know what can be wrong at web-server. All things considered, something can generally turn out to go wrong. On the off chance if that does, then having a recent backup of your websites' data gives you an effortless method to re-establish your TYPO3 website to its last working state. 

What do you need to consider backup?

• Database - consider the whole database
• /typo3conf folder for all-installed extensions
• /fileadmin and /uploads folders for all-assets
• /typo3 You can ignore to take a backup of the TYPO3 core because it is available for future from get.typo3.org

If you’ve never created a TYPO3 backup for your website, we recommend using the Backup Plus TYPO3 extension, which makes the process simple with a one-click backup feature. Plus, it enables you to automate your backups, so you won’t have to perform them manually.
We recommend you read How to Backup TYPO3 Site for everything you should know about the Backup of your TYPO3 website.

Source

TYPO3 core as are the files that make up the open-source project. 

Team TYPO3 works hard to make the Open Source TYPO3 CMS best for you by constant releases of TYPO3 Major, and Security/Bug Fixing updates with enhancements and improvements in each release. 

Although TYPO3 is one of the most secure CMS, yet not updating minor yet important updates from time to time may impact the security of your website.

Keep up-to-date with your TYPO3 website. Also, you can subscribe to TYPO3’s mailing list to get updates straight to your mailbox!

We must agree that TYPO3 Extensions are the extra functionalities that can be added to any TYPO3 website to add features or expand functionality. But sometimes ignoring minor bug fixing and security updates can increase your chances of encountering a security and error risk.

Extensions at TER and T3Terminal are periodically updated and managed by dedicated TYPO3 developers with bug fixes and security updates in the TYPO3 community to stay in line with current standards and best practices.

TYPO3 is the most secure is the most popular platform yet we need to be prepared and alert in order to maintain the security of your TYPO3 website.

• Protecting yourself from Brute Force Attacks

Run malware scans regularly in case unsuspecting infections are collecting your website information, and enforce good password habits. Resetting admin passwords in regular intervals and enabling 2-factor authentication are both practices that go a long way as well.

• Managing access or Removing Inactive Users

Every inactive login for your website is a potential account to be hacked, and these frequently lead to hacking incidents. To ensure delete users that haven’t been on in a long while, and most importantly, make sure admin accounts are only held by those who currently need them. 

• Secure Your All Passwords

Although it’s simple, keep regularly change your passwords of TYPO3 Backend, SSH, SFTP, Database, etc.,
 
But you can’t afford to miss The Ultimate TYPO3 Security Guide with step by step instructions for an ultimate robust TYPO3 website.

Although TYPO3 is marked as number one of CMS for the great speed and performance. But still, you need to regularly check the speed and performance of your TYPO3 instance’s especially the frontend - to give the best experience to your site’s visitors.
 
You can use various available tools to get speed and performance reports of your TYPO3 site. And, should consider fixing those errors which are reported from the tool.

• Google Page Speed
• GTMetrix
• Pingdom

And if you want to improve and get to know the practical best-practices and tools-techniques to Speed up your TYPO3 performance? Then, you must read 45+ Ultimate Ways to Speed Up Your TYPO3 Performance. 

We recommend that websites audit should be updated on a regular basis and must on a monthly basis. This means:

• Review that your code is clean, up to date, and meets current coding standards.
• Make sure to test the responsiveness of the design.
• Ensuring the website security.
• Repairing broken links.
• Repairing anything else that might be broken and is essential to visitor engagements and conversions (e.g. contact forms, feeds, checkout, internal search, clickable buttons).

Also, it’s just to test the front end of your TYPO3 website, you might be working hard on the backend to maintain it, but there may be some issues in front-end too, you must make sure to resolve them.
Don’t forget to ensure to have test-driven your all-over site in concern to quality assurance testing. You can consider to testing;

• Functionality Testing
• UX/UI - Design Testing
• Validation Testing
• Dependencies Testing