A WooCommerce store going down at 11pm on a Friday is a different emergency than a brochure site going down.
Missed orders are lost revenue. Failed payments are angry customers. A hacked checkout is a PCI incident.
After managing WooCommerce stores for multiple clients, I've narrowed the monthly maintenance down to 8 checks that prevent the most expensive problems. Each one has a real failure story behind it.
1. Test a real payment (every month, no exceptions)
The most common thing WooCommerce maintainers skip is actually testing checkout. They update plugins, check the dashboard, and assume everything works.
