Website Maintenance: Insurance Your Site Actually Uses
Websites age like cars, not like paintings. Software updates, security patches, content changes, the occasional mystery bug — our maintenance plans handle all of it before you notice.
Updates & backups
Core, plugin, and dependency updates applied on a staging copy first. Daily backups you'll hopefully never need — but will be very glad exist.
Security monitoring
Uptime monitoring, malware scanning, and firewall management. If something looks wrong at 3am, we know before your customers do.
On-call changes
New page? Swapped pricing? Banner for the sale? Send it over — small changes are included, handled within two business days.
What's in each maintenance plan
Essential covers updates, backups, security, and uptime monitoring. Standard adds two hours of monthly content changes and quarterly performance reviews. Priority adds same-day response, monthly SEO health checks, and a direct line to a developer. All plans are month-to-month — we keep clients through reliability, not contracts.
The real cost of no maintenance
An unmaintained site fails quietly: a plugin conflict breaks the contact form and leads vanish for weeks; an unpatched vulnerability gets the site flagged by Google; load times creep up and rankings drift down. Every one of those scenarios came from a real rescue project — and every one cost more to fix than years of maintenance would have.
What's included in our website maintenance engagements
- Monthly platform, plugin, and dependency updates
- Daily off-site backups with point-in-time restore
- 24/7 uptime monitoring and alerting
- Monthly performance and Core Web Vitals report
- Security scans and proactive vulnerability patching
- Up to two hours of content or design edits each month
- Priority support with one-business-day response
Who website maintenance is for
- Owners who don't want to think about WordPress updates
- Marketing teams that need a reliable hand for small site edits
- Companies that lost their previous developer and need continuity
- Anyone whose site is too important to leave on autopilot
Why website maintenance matters in 2026
Most websites don't fail in one big crash — they fail slowly, through skipped updates, broken plugins, drifting performance, and forgotten SSL renewals. By the time someone notices, the damage is months deep. Website maintenance exists to keep that slow drift from ever starting.
Our maintenance plans cover the boring, important things that nobody puts on a roadmap: backups, updates, monitoring, security, and the occasional 'can you swap this image' request. You get a site that just works and a single point of contact who knows it.
Common questions, straight answers.
How much does website maintenance cost?
Every engagement is scoped to your budget. Tell us what you're working with on the discovery call, and we'll propose the strongest fixed plan that fits — no hourly billing, no surprise invoices. Payment plans are available, and if your budget fits a different solution better, we'll tell you that too.
Do you maintain sites you didn't build?
Yes — after a one-time onboarding audit so we know exactly what we're taking responsibility for.
What counts as a 'small change'?
Anything under roughly 30 minutes: text and image swaps, new sections from existing patterns, banner updates. Bigger items get a quick fixed quote.
Ready when you are.
Tell us what you're building — we'll reply within one business day with honest next steps.