Website maintenance

Website maintenance is the recurring work that keeps a live site healthy: security updates, content updates, uptime monitoring, backups and quick fixes. It can be a fixed monthly plan or ad-hoc pieces — what matters is that it actually happens, because an unmaintained site is the common failure.

Reviewed October 5, 2026. Prices are quoted per project; nothing on this page is a published price list.

What it covers

Uptime, SSL and domain-expiry monitoring.
Security updates and content updates.
Backups and a tested way to restore.
Quick fixes when something breaks.

What it costs

With us, from $45 a month on a written care plan, or $40 an hour for ad-hoc pieces. Compare that with the cost of an abandoned site: stale content, expired domains, unpatched software — the failures we see most are failures of neglect, not of budget.

Why it matters

Most small business site incidents come from abandonment: expired domains, stale plugins, old passwords. Maintenance is boring, scheduled and written down — which is exactly why it works.

Plans vs pieces

A plan suits sites that change often or must never be down. Pieces suit quiet sites. Either way the work should be recorded, so you can see it happened rather than take it on trust.

Questions

Do I need a maintenance plan?

Not always. Quiet, static sites may only need occasional pieces. A plan earns its keep when the site changes monthly, must stay up, or you would rather have a written allowance of updates than quote each job.

What happens if I skip maintenance?

Eventually: stale content, expired domain or SSL, unpatched software, and the slow drift nobody notices until the site is already costing you business. The failures we see are almost always failures of neglect.

Tell us what you need. Send a few rough lines and we will come back with a scope, a fixed price and a delivery date in writing.

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