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The administrator's drawer
Small tools for calmer site care.
Use these lightweight helpers to make maintenance decisions visible before they become urgent.
These tools are planning aids. Keep your own backup and hosting policies as the source of truth.
Backup storage estimate
Estimate a working storage allowance from your current site size and the number of retained copies.
Your estimate will appear here.
A maintenance rhythm that holds
Tools help with the arithmetic; habits protect the site. Put a small recurring check on the calendar rather than waiting for a release or warning to force the issue.
- Review updates in a staging or test environment when the site allows it.
- Confirm that a recent backup can actually be restored.
- Record extension versions and configuration changes in one shared place.
- Keep an emergency administrator route documented and protected.
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