Website Maintenance
A monthly plan that keeps your site updated, backed up, and watched, plus a block of time for the small changes that always come up.
At a glance
- Timeline
- Onboarding takes about a week. After that, plans run month to month.
- You get
- Core, theme, and plugin updates tested on staging
- Daily off-site backups with tested restores
- Uptime and error monitoring
- Tools
- Staging environments, Cloudflare, Better Stack uptime monitoring, Sentry
- Price
- A fixed, written quote. Free to ask.
Page reviewed October 2026
What this covers
Websites don't stay finished. Plugins and frameworks release security updates, hosting changes, forms stop sending, and someone always needs a new page or a price change. Without a plan, these pile up until something breaks.
Our maintenance plans cover the routine work: updates tested on a staging copy before they touch the live site, daily backups stored away from your server, uptime and error monitoring, and a short monthly report in plain English. Each plan includes time for small content and development tasks, so you have someone to email when you need a change.
We maintain sites we built and sites we didn't. For sites new to us, we start with a short audit so we know what we're looking after.
Is this right for you?
You'll get the most out of it if any of these sound familiar:
- Nobody on your team owns website updates.
- Your site has gone down before and you heard about it from a customer.
- You have a backlog of small changes waiting for someone to make them.
- Your previous developer has moved on.
What you get
Included in a typical engagement:
- Core, theme, and plugin updates tested on staging
- Daily off-site backups with tested restores
- Uptime and error monitoring
- Security scanning and firewall management
- Monthly time for small content and development tasks
- Plain-English monthly report
How it works
Onboarding takes about a week. After that, plans run month to month.
Onboarding audit
We review your site, hosting, and access, and fix anything urgent first.
Monitoring setup
Uptime checks, error tracking, and backup schedules configured and tested.
Monthly cycle
Updates, checks, and requested tasks, with a short report at the end of the month.
Quarterly review
A look at speed, security, and anything worth planning for the next quarter.
What affects the price
Every quote is fixed and written down before work starts. These are the things that move it:
- Platform and how many plugins or apps need managing
- Number of sites
- Hours of development time included each month
- Response time you need
Mistakes we plan around
The problems we see most often when this work is rushed:
- Auto-updating everything on the live site with no staging copy.
- Keeping backups on the same server as the site.
- Never testing whether backups actually restore.
Website Maintenance questions
What's included in a maintenance plan?
Updates, backups, uptime monitoring, security checks, a monthly report, and a set number of hours for small changes. Larger projects are quoted separately so the monthly fee stays predictable.
Do you maintain sites you didn't build?
Yes. We start with a short audit so we understand the setup and can flag anything risky before we take responsibility for it.
What happens if the site goes down?
Our monitoring alerts us, and we respond within your plan's response time. Most outages come from hosting, expired domains, or a failed update, and we work through those in that order.
Which platforms do you support?
WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, and custom Next.js or React sites.
Is there a long contract?
No. Plans are month to month after onboarding.
Often paired with
Services clients commonly combine with this one.
- Website Security
Hardening, firewalls, monitoring, and malware cleanup for business websites.
- Website Backup Setup
Automatic off-site backups, and restores we've actually tested.
- Performance Monitoring
Uptime, errors, and real-visitor speed watched around the clock, with alerts that matter.
- Hosting Setup
The right hosting for your site, configured for speed and security, without overpaying.
Want a quote for this?
A few sentences is enough. We'll reply within one business day with questions or a suggested next step, and a fixed quote once the scope is clear.
What you can count on
- A fixed, written quote before any work starts
- Code, domain, hosting, and analytics in your name
- A progress update every week during projects
- Monthly plans that run month to month
- A reply within one business day