FAQ

🔐 Do I still need plugins like Wordfence or services like Sucuri?

Yes.
We don’t replace those tools — we complement them.

Wordfence, Sucuri, and others run inside your WordPress site.
WPMissionControl runs outside, monitoring things they can’t:

• Whether your site is actually up
• Whether your SSL or domain is about to expire
• Whether files have been tampered with
• Whether your site’s layout silently broke

Some of our users run both — and we encourage that.
Security should be layered.

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📡 How is this different from UptimeRobot or Jetpack Monitor?

Those tools check if your site responds — that’s it.
We check:

• Uptime
• SSL validity
• Domain expiration
• PHP file integrity
• Malware
• Visual layout changes
• And more — all from outside the site

Uptime is just one piece. We cover the rest.

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📷 Why are you taking screenshots of my site every day?

Because sites can be “up” and still completely broken:

• A plugin update breaks the layout
• A CDN fails to load images
• A script error disables key content

We compare screenshots daily to catch these issues before your customers or clients do.

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🦠 How does your malware scanner work?

We request a zipped, read-only version of all PHP files from your site.
We scan that bundle on our server using AI models trained to spot suspicious patterns.

Unlike plugins, we:

• Don’t slow your site down
• Can’t be tampered with by malware
• Run offsite — so infections can’t hide from us

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💸 Why is this a monthly subscription?

Because we’re running:

• Malware scans on multiple servers
• AI checks on file structures
• Visual diffs on images (sometimes GBs of data daily)
• Real-time uptime, SSL, and domain expiration checks
• Emails, Slack, compliant SMS integrations

This takes compute power, bandwidth, and storage.
We handle all of that — you just get alerts that matter.

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⚙️ Can I just build this myself with cron scripts?

You can try.
That’s exactly how we started.
But after enough silent cron failures, SSL expirations, and layout issues no one noticed… we built WPMissionControl to do it right, reliably.

We don’t just ping your site.
We act as your second brain — and your first line of awareness.

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🛠️ Do I need to install anything?

Yes — to enable full monitoring, you install the WPMissionControl plugin and enter your API key.
That allows us to scan your PHP files and calculate health integrity scores.

We don’t alter your site in any way. We only observe and report.

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👤 Who built this? Why should I trust it?

WPMissionControl was built by a team of WordPress developers who were tired of finding out about problems too late — usually when a client was already angry.

This wasn’t a startup idea. It was an internal tool — refined over years — that became too useful not to share.

We don’t upsell junk.
We just help you know before it’s too late.