As the internet grows in its popularity and your company in its reach, merging both successes become fruitful when the presence on the internet is firmly established. Your company's web site could have been launched as a first time experiment or as a fully blown e-commerce venture, both cases of presence need to be sustained over a long period of time. The need for your company web site maintenance arises, for reasons of sustaining it in the face of so many risks it faces on the internet.

Company web site maintenance is normally undertaken by it's own IT or EDP division or by an external agency specializing in this area of information technology. The risks could arise from so many unethical and untoward practices on the internet propagated by destructive hackers or intellectual property thieves.