Website Care, Performance & Security

Website Rollback Plan

A website rollback plan describes how a team will return to a previously working state if a deployment or configuration change causes problems.

A website rollback plan describes how a team will return to a previously working state if a deployment or configuration change causes problems. Before updating a site, the plan should identify what can be reverted, where the previous version is stored, who can act, and how success will be checked. This differs from a general website restore, which may involve recovering files or data after other failures. A service business should also consider whether bookings or form submissions made since the change could be lost. Test procedures before an emergency and communicate any user-facing downtime rather than assuming every rollback is instant or risk-free.