John Crist

John "Jack" Crist founded MaintenancePress on a premise he'd watched play out for two decades: most websites don't fail dramatically. They fail quietly. A plugin update times out mid-install and silently removes files. An optimizer starts preloading images the browser never uses. A payment form stops submitting on mobile only. None of it announces itself. The site still loads, the homepage still looks right, and the problem sits there for weeks until a customer mentions it, or until someone checks analytics and finds the leads stopped. Jack has been building for the web since the late 1990s and has run jVista Website Services, his Tucson agency, since 2008. That span covers a lot of platform churn and a consistent lesson: the work that protects a site isn't the launch, it's everything...