MAINTENANCE · SUPPORT · DUBAI
I'm Emad Yahya — a web developer and IT systems engineer in Dubai. Website maintenance is not a side service I bolt onto builds: keeping systems patched, backed up and online is literally my day job. I run enterprise IT for a Dubai real estate firm — servers, networks, Microsoft 365 — and the websites I look after get the same treatment.
That means updates applied on schedule, backups that actually restore, security patches before they matter, speed that holds, content changes turned around fast, and monitoring so problems reach me before they reach your customers. Whether I built your site or someone else did, I keep it running like the production system it is.
Most freelance developers build a site and move on — maintenance is an afterthought. My background is the opposite. I am an IT systems engineer with 4+ years in Dubai, and my daily work is keeping enterprise infrastructure alive: Windows and Linux servers, networking, Active Directory and Microsoft 365, backup strategies, security hardening and uptime monitoring.
A website is a small production system. The habits that keep a company's servers online — patch on schedule, back up before you touch anything, monitor everything, document every change — are exactly what your website gets from me.
Maintenance is not just preventing crashes. I keep sites fast — optimised images, caching, clean code — because speed is user experience and Google ranking at the same time. Every delivery of mine includes SEO foundations and technical hygiene, and maintenance is what stops that hygiene from decaying.
Monitoring runs in the background: if the site goes down or slows, I know and I act — before downtime turns into lost enquiries.
If I built your site, maintenance is seamless — I know every line. Sites I designed and built, like LKYOOB and THE GROE, are live right now — and nobody knows a site’s every line like the engineer who built it.
If someone else built it, I start with an audit: hosting, domain, DNS, code, backups and access. You get a written report of what is healthy and what is a risk, then a plan — a documented handover into safer hands, with no judgment about the previous developer.
Send me your URL and what you need — a one-off fix, a refresh, or ongoing care. You get a fixed written quote within 24 hours.
Everything stays in your name: domain, hosting, code and accounts. If we ever part ways, you lose nothing — the same ownership rule I apply to the full systems I build. Optional monthly maintenance is available, but nothing locks you in.
It depends on the site: a brochure site needs far less care than an e-commerce store or a web application, so I quote per site rather than a one-size retainer. Tell me your URL and what you need — a one-off fix or ongoing care — and you get a fixed written quote within 24 hours. There are no lock-in contracts.
Yes. I start with an audit of hosting, domain, DNS, code, backups and access, and give you a written picture of what is healthy and what is a risk. From there I can do a one-off repair or take over ongoing maintenance — documented, so you are never dependent on any single developer again, including me.
Software and security updates, backups that are tested and stored safely, uptime monitoring, speed and performance care, and content changes when you need them. In short: everything required to keep a live website fast, secure and current — handled on a schedule instead of after something breaks.
Send me the URL and what happened. Diagnosing dead sites and servers is part of my daily work as an IT systems engineer — I will find out whether the problem is hosting, domain, DNS or code, tell you plainly, and quote the fix in writing.
Security patches should be applied as soon as they are released, backups should run daily at minimum, and content should be reviewed regularly so the site never advertises last year's business. Most sites that get hacked or break were simply never patched — maintenance is always cheaper than recovery.
Yes — this is where the IT engineering background pays off. In my daily work I administer cloud platforms, DNS, Windows and Linux servers, and Microsoft 365 with Exchange Online, so your hosting, domain and company email can be looked after alongside the website by one person.
No. You can call me for one-off fixes, or choose an ongoing maintenance arrangement if you want updates, backups and monitoring handled without thinking about them. Either way everything — domain, hosting, code and accounts — stays registered in your name, and nothing locks you in.
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