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Website maintenance packages from $199/mo. Fixed monthly pricing, LiteSpeed hosting on Cloudflare, weekly WordPress patches on a staging clone, encrypted off-site backups, and 60-second uptime pings. Standard edits go live inside 24 hours. Every line is written into your contract.

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99.9%
Written uptime SLA
24 hr
Standard edit turnaround
$199
/mo hosting bundled
60s UPTIME PING / 5 GLOBAL POPS
99.9% SLA · EVERY PLAN
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The proof

Three ways set-and-forget hosting puts your WordPress site at risk

If any of these looks familiar, the free website audit names the fix and what it's worth before you spend a dollar.

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UPDATE CONFLICTS

Core, theme, and plugin updates collide and break the live site

68% of WordPress outages trace to unstaged updates. Overnight auto-updates make it worse with no rollback plan when a plugin conflict lands on production first.

✓THE FIX / STAGING TEST BEFORE PRODUCTION
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FORMS DEAD

Contact forms silently stop delivering after an SMTP or plugin update

1 in 5 WordPress sites has a form that submits without delivering. Weeks of leads lost while the thank-you page keeps firing and nobody notices the drop.

✓THE FIX / WEEKLY FORM-FILL DELIVERY CHECK
Website maintenance packages Every night checked list flagged One file dead beside a phone Restored screen
NO ROLLBACK

Backups exist on paper but nobody has ever restored one to prove they work

Nightly backups go untested for months. The zip file is corrupt or 60 days old when you actually need it. Only a monthly restore drill on staging proves the file works.

✓THE FIX / MONTHLY RESTORE DRILL

The outcomes

What real website maintenance packages cover, in writing

Three numbers we sign against on every care plan. Each one is a launch criterion, not a hope.

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Hosting, security, backups, and edits in one fee

One contract, not four. Managed WordPress hosting, security scans, off-site backups, uptime monitoring, and monthly edits in one predictable line.

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Standard edit turnaround inside 24 hours, in writing

Email a change request. Standard turnaround is 24 hours. Urgent same-day. Guaranteed response runs 48 hours on Essential, 24 hours on Growth, same day on Scale, and 4 hours on Enterprise. No two-week ticket queue and no invoice per edit.

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One written monthly report, not a dashboard link

One written note each month covering uptime, security incidents, updates applied, edits pushed live, and Core Web Vitals trend. Real accountability, not a link.

Four stages. Onboard, harden, then keep it running

Same rhythm across every one of our monthly website maintenance plans. Onboarding first, then ongoing patch, backup, and monitoring work with a monthly written report so nothing runs on trust alone.

ONBOARD

Full audit and priority fix list

Full site audit, hosting review, plugin footprint check, security posture. Priority fix list delivered in writing so nothing runs on trust. Every recommendation has a paper trail you can point at later if a call goes sideways.

✓SIGN-OFF
MIGRATE

Managed hosting on your production domain

Migration to LiteSpeed or managed WordPress hosting. Core and plugin updates staged. Security hardening applied. Backups and monitoring enabled before we hand you a sign-off. Site hardened before the monthly rhythm starts.

✓HANDOVER
MAINTAIN

Weekly patches, nightly backups, monthly report

Core and plugin updates weekly. Security patches inside 48 hours of CVE release. Encrypted off-site backups, weekly on Essential and nightly from Growth up. Uptime monitoring every 60 seconds. One monthly written report covering uptime, patches, edits, and incidents.

✓REPORT
EDIT

24-hour edit turnaround, every request

Content edits, image swaps, form tweaks, seasonal offer rotations. Standard turnaround inside 24 hours from ticket to production push. Urgent same-day. Guaranteed response runs 48 hours on Essential, 24 hours on Growth, same day on Scale, and 4 hours on Enterprise.

✓LIVE

What you get inside our website maintenance packages

Five phases, every item listed. Fixed scope, defined deliverable per phase, written sign-off on the calendar for every website maintenance package.

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ONBOARDING

Access, baseline scan, and a first backup on day one

Day one. Access, credentials, and a full baseline security, speed, and accessibility scan documented in writing. First off-site backup taken and verified before we change anything. Nothing you have to think about, and every decision has a paper trail.

PHASE DURATION
Day 1
SIGN-OFF
Access + backup verified
✓GATE · SIGN-OFF REQUIRED
// DELIVERABLES
✓
Access + credentials loggedWordPress admin, hosting, DNS, GA4, Search Console, CRM API. All logged with a documented rotation schedule.
✓
Full site backup, off-site and verifiedNightly backup running before end of day one. First backup restored on staging to prove the zip is not corrupt.
✓
Baseline scan reportSecurity posture, Core Web Vitals baseline, plugin health, disk usage, WCAG 2.1 AA gaps. All captured before we touch anything.
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Support runbook shared with your teamEmergency numbers, ticket process, response coverage. Owner and ops lead both have it on file.
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Staging environment provisionedA staging clone stays in sync with production for every update pass. Major changes tested on staging before touching live.
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Dev + prod parity checkPHP version, WordPress version, plugin stack, and cache config compared on both. Drift flagged in the day-one report.
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HOSTING

LiteSpeed, Cloudflare, and edge cache on your production domain

Ongoing. Managed WordPress hosting on LiteSpeed with Quic.Cloud CDN and Cloudflare edge cache. Web application firewall blocking bot and brute-force traffic before it reaches the server. 99.9% written SLA on every plan with service credits when we miss.

PHASE DURATION
Ongoing
SIGN-OFF
LiteSpeed + Quic.Cloud CDN
✓GATE · 99.9% SLA · EVERY PLAN
// DELIVERABLES
✓
LiteSpeed managed hostingNot shared, not cheap-tier. Sites run on isolated resources with proper caching and PHP tuning per your traffic profile.
✓
Quic.Cloud CDN + Cloudflare edge cacheStatic assets served from 5 global POPs. HTML edge-cached with cache-purge rules tuned per template.
✓
WAF + brute-force protectionCloudflare rule set plus WordFence at the WordPress layer. Bot traffic filtered before it hits PHP.
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SSL renewal and monitoringCertificates renewed 30 days before expiry. Chain and OCSP staple checked weekly. Zero surprise browser warnings.
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99.9% uptime SLA in writing on every planWritten into the contract. Service credits apply if we miss the target across any billing month.
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Daily server health checkDisk usage, PHP-FPM load, database size, and slow-query log reviewed daily. Anomalies flagged inside the monthly report.
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UPDATES

Weekly WordPress core and plugin updates on a staging clone

Weekly. Every core release, plugin release, and theme update tested on a staging clone before touching production. Security patches applied inside 48 hours of CVE release. Rollback ready inside 5 minutes if anything breaks.

PHASE DURATION
Weekly
SIGN-OFF
Staged first
✓GATE · 48HR SECURITY SLA
// DELIVERABLES
✓
WordPress core updatesEvery point release tested on staging. Regression check on hero, forms, checkout, and page speed before production push.
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Plugin updates in priority orderSecurity patches first, then compatibility fixes, then feature releases. Each one staged and regression-tested individually.
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Theme updatesParent theme and child theme updates staged, custom overrides preserved, template diff logged before production push.
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48-hour security patch SLAAny WordFence or Wordfence-tracked CVE applied inside 48 hours of publication. Documented in the monthly report.
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5-minute rollback readyEvery production push has a rollback plan. If regression testing on live catches an issue, we revert inside 5 minutes.
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PHP version trackingPHP kept on a supported major version. Migration to the next major staged and tested a full quarter before end-of-life.
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MONITORING

Uptime pings every 60 seconds and Core Web Vitals watched monthly

Ongoing. Uptime monitoring every 60 seconds from three geographic regions. Core Web Vitals tracked monthly against a real user monitoring baseline. Form-fill delivery checked every week. Broken-link scan monthly. Every anomaly written to the incident log.

PHASE DURATION
Ongoing
SIGN-OFF
60s ping / 3 regions
✓GATE · INCIDENT LOG
// DELIVERABLES
✓
Uptime pings every 60 secondsUptime Robot or Better Uptime running from three regions. Two consecutive fails escalate to the on-call developer inside minutes.
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Core Web Vitals watched monthlyCrUX real-user data plus PageSpeed Insights lab runs. LCP, INP, and CLS trended so drift gets caught early.
✓
Form-fill delivery check weeklyReal submission through every form on the site every week. Delivery verified in inbox and CRM. Silent failures caught the same week they happen.
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Broken-link scan monthlyFull-site crawl for 404s, redirect chains, and mixed-content warnings. Findings logged in the monthly report with fix ETAs.
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GA4 and Search Console healthGA4 event tracking, conversion goals, and Search Console coverage report reviewed weekly for tag drops or index issues.
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WCAG 2.1 AA quarterly auditAccessibility audit against WCAG 2.1 AA every quarter. Contrast, keyboard nav, screen reader flow. Findings logged with priority.
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REPORTS

One written monthly note covering uptime, patches, edits, and incidents

Monthly. One written report, delivered the first business week of the month. Uptime summary, patches applied, edits pushed live, incidents logged, Core Web Vitals trend, and recommended next-month priorities. No dashboard link with 40 tabs to scroll.

PHASE DURATION
Monthly
SIGN-OFF
Written note
✓GATE · PRIORITY QUEUE
// DELIVERABLES
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Uptime summaryActual uptime percentage against the 99.9% SLA on every plan. Any incidents with duration, root cause, and remediation.
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Patches appliedEvery core, plugin, and theme update run this month. Version before and after. Any staging catches worth calling out.
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Edits pushed liveEvery content edit, image swap, form change, and template update pushed live this month. Ticket ID, request date, live date.
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Core Web Vitals trendLCP, INP, and CLS this month vs last three months. Trend arrow and callout if any metric slipped out of the good bucket.
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Incident logEvery alert this month with disposition. False positive, transient, real incident. Real incidents get a full write-up.
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Priority queue for next monthThree ranked recommendations for next month based on what the audit surfaced. Owner decides which to green-light.
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Four maintenance tiers for every stage of growth

Pick the tier that matches your site size and traffic. Switch tiers with 30 days notice. No setup fees. Hover any feature name for a plain-English explanation.

Essential
$199MONTHLY

Stable sites that need patching, backups, and uptime

✓24/7 uptime monitoring ✓SSL monitoring + auto-renewal ✓WordPress core + plugin patching ✓Security scans: Weekly ✓Backups: Weekly ✓Content edits / month: 1 ✓Written monthly report
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Growth
$299MONTHLY

Sites with booking widgets and forms that must not break

✓24/7 uptime monitoring ✓SSL monitoring + auto-renewal ✓WordPress core + plugin patching ✓Security scans: Daily ✓Backups: Daily ✓Content edits / month: 2 ✓Booking, scheduling or quote-form integration monitoring
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Scale
$499MONTHLY

High-traffic sites and businesses running paid campaigns

✓24/7 uptime monitoring ✓SSL monitoring + auto-renewal ✓WordPress core + plugin patching ✓Security scans: Daily ✓Backups: Daily + on-demand ✓Content edits / month: 4 ✓Booking, scheduling or quote-form integration monitoring
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Enterprise
CustomMONTHLY

Multi-site estates and multi-brand groups

✓24/7 uptime monitoring ✓SSL monitoring + auto-renewal ✓WordPress core + plugin patching ✓Security scans: Continuous ✓Backups: Custom ✓Content edits / month: Custom ✓Booking, scheduling or quote-form integration monitoring
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Every maintenance feature, tier by tier

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Uptime + security+
FEATURE
ESSENTIAL
GROWTH
SCALE
ENTERPRISE
24/7 uptime monitoring
✓
✓
✓
✓
SSL monitoring + auto-renewal
✓
✓
✓
✓
WordPress core + plugin patching
✓
✓
✓
✓
Security scans
Weekly
Daily
Daily
Continuous
Backups
Weekly
Daily
Daily + on-demand
Custom
Content + integrations+
FEATURE
ESSENTIAL
GROWTH
SCALE
ENTERPRISE
Content edits / month
1
2
4
Custom
Booking, scheduling or quote-form integration monitoring
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✓
✓
✓
Regulated-data form audit, where HIPAA or PCI applies
—
✓
✓
✓
Schema drift monitoring
—
✓
✓
✓
Performance + reporting+
FEATURE
ESSENTIAL
GROWTH
SCALE
ENTERPRISE
Core Web Vitals tune-up
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Quarterly
Monthly
Monthly
Written monthly report
✓
✓
✓
✓
Analytics + lead tracking health
—
✓
✓
✓
Compliance + enterprise+
FEATURE
ESSENTIAL
GROWTH
SCALE
ENTERPRISE
Annual compliance audit
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—
✓
✓
Multi-site dashboard
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Guaranteed support ticket response
48h
24h
Same day
4h
Case studies See all case studies

Real WordPress and WooCommerce sites, real numbers

Each one includes where the client started, what we changed and what happened.

Homepage of RAFZ Cirkulära Interiörer, a Ecommerce · Sustainable Furniture · Sweden business, shown in a browser window
Ecommerce · Sustainable Furniture · Sweden

Grew RAFZ conversions 28% with a rebuild that loads in 2 seconds.

RAFZ Cirkulära Interiörer sells eco-friendly furniture in Sweden. Its site was heavy with plugins and took 15+ seconds to load, and shoppers left their carts. We rebuilt it on a light custom theme, tuned WooCommerce, added the place2place API and a repaint feature, and refocused the homepage on products. The site now loads in 2 seconds, server requests fell 82% and conversions rose 28%.

Read the RAFZ Cirkulära Interiörer case study →
+28%
Conversion rate
2s
Page load
-82%
Server requests
Homepage of Beauté Aesthetics New York, a Medical Aesthetics · Premium · NY business, shown in a browser window
Medical Aesthetics · Premium · NY

Grew Beauté Aesthetics leads 166% and lifted its conversion rate 27% with a redesign true to its luxury brand.

Beauté Aesthetics New York is a luxury aesthetics clinic. Its slow site, overly feminine design and weak SEO did not match its reputation or welcome male clients. We redesigned it with an inclusive luxury look, 1s load times, treatment landing pages, schema markup and proper analytics. In 12 months leads grew 166%, new users rose 88% and the conversion rate improved 27%.

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+166%
Leads
+27%
Conversions
+88%
New users
Homepage of Joint Industrial Development Authority of Wythe County, a Economic Development · Public Sector business, shown in a browser window
Economic Development · Public Sector

Achieved a 100% desktop PageSpeed score and 3× pages per session for JIDA with a CMS-led redesign.

The Joint Industrial Development Authority of Wythe County had a slow website. It was hard to update and made a poor first impression on investors. We rebuilt it on WordPress with clearer navigation, faster performance and a CMS the team could run, and trained staff to use it. Desktop speed now scores in the 100th percentile, visitors view 3× more pages per session and the team updates content without outside help.

Read the Joint Industrial Development Authority of Wythe County case study →
100%
Pagespeed score
3×
Pages per session
100%
CMS autonomy

CLIENT WORDS

The team split our national spend by store catchment. Every location got its own landing page and creative. Booked eye exams up 47% inside two quarters with the same media budget.
Karen Williams
Head of Marketing, Vision Express
Verified via NPS survey
+47% booked eye exams Per-store attribution
Vision Express website homepage in a browser window, a prescription sunglasses offer above eye exam booking and eyewear
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Selected clients we've run full marketing programs for

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  • Government Legal Department
  • Hightop Health
  • LifeStance Health
  • Marmalade
  • Montegra Capital Resources
  • Noelle Collins Dental Clinic
  • Oxford Capital
  • Paquin & Carroll Insurance
  • PCO Bookkeepers & M&A Specialists
  • Peaceful Mind Psychology
  • Peak Accounting Solutions
  • Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine
  • RiverSaaS Capital
  • Rosenbaum Personal Injury Lawyers
  • Smile Design Dentistry
  • Stanhope Capital Group
  • Stella Maris
  • Tilghman Builders
  • Toyota
  • Uptime
  • VP Dental & Medical Supplies
  • Wilentz Attorneys at Law

See what one day of downtime actually costs

Move the sliders to your numbers. This is your own revenue, divided by the days it arrives on.

Revenue at risk per day offline
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A day of your own sales, from the traffic and conversion rate above. It does not count the ranking loss or the support hours an outage adds on top.

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Website maintenance packages FAQ

Real questions from WordPress and WooCommerce site owners on our quote calls. Anything else, ask on the strategy call and get an answer the same day.

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A website maintenance plan is a monthly retainer that covers the run-rate work every live site needs. That includes hosting, security patches, core and plugin updates, nightly backups, uptime monitoring, and a set number of content edits each month. Our website maintenance packages bundle all of that under one fixed monthly fee, so you get one invoice and one point of contact instead of chasing four vendors. The plan runs on a 30-day cycle that renews unless you switch tiers. Every task ties back to a written scope so you can see what was patched, what was edited, and what got flagged in the monthly report. Essential covers 1 content edit a month, Growth covers 2, Scale covers 4, and Enterprise is a custom count. Guaranteed response runs 48 hours on Essential, 24 hours on Growth, same day on Scale, and 4 hours on Enterprise. If your WordPress or WooCommerce site earns revenue, a documented plan protects that revenue better than ad-hoc developer time. Google Search Central lays out the technical hygiene work required to stay indexed and ranked.

Website maintenance covers eight repeatable jobs on a set cadence. WordPress core updates, plugin and theme updates, security patches inside 48 hours of CVE release, nightly encrypted backups tested on staging, uptime pings every 60 seconds from three regions, weekly form-fill delivery checks, monthly Core Web Vitals reports, and a written incident log. Our website maintenance packages layer content edits on top of that, so image swaps, copy tweaks, and seasonal offer rotations get pushed live within 24 hours of the request. Bigger tiers add SEO monitoring, broken-link scans, WCAG 2.1 AA audits, and quarterly speed passes on the live checkout or lead form. Everything is logged in a monthly report so you see the version bumps, the edits pushed, and any incident with a full root cause. Customers get a shared dashboard link showing ticket status, backup timestamps, and last patch date. If the item is not in scope, we quote it before starting so nothing surprises the invoice. Web.dev vitals defines the performance floor we measure against.

Every live WordPress or WooCommerce site needs weekly patch work, monthly backup verification, and quarterly security audits at minimum. Weekly patches keep the core, themes, and plugins current with the security releases WordPress publishes 4 to 6 times per year. Monthly backup drills prove the zip actually restores instead of assuming it does. Quarterly audits catch drift on SSL certificates, PHP versions, WCAG accessibility gaps, and page speed. On top of that, forms need testing, GA4 tags need auditing, and broken-link scans need running before Google flags the site. Website maintenance packages roll all of this into a fixed monthly fee so nothing slips through the cracks for busy customers. Skipping any single one of these jobs opens the door to broken checkout flows, dead lead forms, or a compromised admin login. The cost of catching one issue early is a fraction of the cost of a full recovery. Web.dev publishes the current performance benchmarks worth measuring against on every quarterly review.

A modern website touches ten moving parts that each carry a cost. Hosting, DNS, SSL, CDN, WAF, plugin licenses, backup storage, uptime monitoring, patch labor, and developer response time. Individually these look cheap. Bundled at business-grade quality with response SLAs, they add up fast. Website maintenance packages compress the ten-vendor tab into one monthly fee, and the volume across a book of customers cuts the unit cost per site. The other cost driver is technical debt. A site that sat without patches for a year needs a hardening pass before it can safely receive updates again, which is billable one-time work on top of the monthly. Sites on outdated PHP, abandoned plugins, or shared hosting hit hidden costs the day something breaks. A typical hardening pass runs 8 to 15 developer hours at $95 to $150 per hour. That one-time cost is why prevention through a monthly plan almost always beats reactive break-fix billing. Web.dev shows how untested performance decay silently costs revenue over time.

For a WordPress or WooCommerce site, expect $199 to $499 per month all-in with website maintenance packages that include hosting. Below $199, you are buying a single service like backups only or a shared uptime monitor with no dedicated response promise. Above $499 puts you into managed WooCommerce, high-traffic setups, or multi-site networks that need dedicated resources. Freelancer time on a break-fix basis runs $75 to $150 per hour without SLA coverage, which usually costs more across a year than a retainer once you count the outage hours. Enterprise-managed hosting alone starts at $500 per month before any labor. Our four tiers sit at $199, $299, $499, and custom pricing per month with hosting bundled into every tier and no setup fees. The $199 tier covers brochure sites with 1 content edit per month. The $299 tier suits content sites with 2 edits. The $499 tier carries 4 edits and the custom tier sets its own count, and both add priority response, WCAG audits, and SEO monitoring for stores and lead-heavy sites. Every tier includes off-site backups, weekly on Essential and nightly from Growth up, plus a monthly report of what changed.

You have three real options at three price points. A one-time freelancer runs $75 to $150 per hour with no SLA and no guarantee they answer next month. An in-house webmaster runs $70,000 to $110,000 per year plus benefits, which only makes sense for a large site with daily changes. A retained agency on website maintenance packages runs $199 to $499 per month for a WordPress or WooCommerce site, with written response times, a rotating on-call rotation, and one point of accountability. Small business customers almost always come out ahead on the retainer because the outage math favors prepaid coverage. A single 6-hour freelancer emergency at $125 per hour costs $750, more than a full year of a $199 monthly plan across the coverage period once you factor in fix time versus prevention. The retainer buys prevention instead of paying for someone to react after the site breaks. It also gives you one phone number to call at 8 pm on a Friday instead of hunting for the freelancer who built the site 4 years ago.

Budget $199 to $499 per month for a professionally-maintained WordPress or WooCommerce site. Anything under $100 per month is a shared plan with no dedicated response SLA, no staging environment, and no included edit hours, so break-fix work gets billed on top of the sticker price. Anything over $499 usually reflects a high-traffic ecommerce site, custom application code, or multi-site network coverage. The right benchmark is the value at risk, not the sticker price. A site that generates $20,000 per month in revenue justifies a $499 tier because a single day of downtime costs more than the annual fee. Our website maintenance packages sit inside that $199 to $499 band with hosting bundled, so customers compare like-for-like against agency retainers rather than adding hosting on top later. Every tier includes weekly patches, off-site backups, uptime pings from three regions, a written monthly report, and 1 to 4 content edits per month, or a custom count on Enterprise. Guaranteed response runs 48 hours on Essential, 24 hours on Growth, same day on Scale, and 4 hours on Enterprise.

Yes, if the site earns revenue or represents a business. WordPress publishes core security releases 4 to 6 times per year, plugin authors push updates weekly, and browsers change compatibility rules every quarter. A site that sits untouched for six months compounds risk on every one of those fronts. Static brochure sites can stretch a longer cycle, but any site with forms, a CMS, ecommerce, or third-party integrations needs at minimum a monthly patch pass and a backup verification. Our website maintenance packages run weekly on WordPress and WooCommerce because the security patch cadence demands it. Skipping months is the number one reason sites get compromised or slow down and drop out of Google results. Customers on a paid plan get a written record of every patch applied, every backup verified, and every scan run against the admin login. That record matters when you renew insurance, sell the business, or answer a security question from a corporate client. WordPress support docs cover the current patch cadence in detail.

For any site that generates leads, bookings, or revenue, yes. The single-day cost of a broken checkout, a dead contact form, or a compromised WordPress install almost always exceeds the annual retainer. Website maintenance packages buy three things you cannot get from ad-hoc developer time. A written SLA on response and uptime, a documented backup that has actually been restored, and one accountable owner when something breaks at 8 pm on a Friday. The math shifts against a retainer only when the site is a low-traffic brochure with no forms, no updates, and no marketing budget behind it. For every other case, a $199 to $499 monthly tier costs less than one break-fix emergency and prevents most of them from ever happening in the first place. Customers on a paid plan also get monthly performance reports, Core Web Vitals tracking, and a shared ticket queue so nothing gets forgotten between quarters. The plan pays for itself the first time a plugin update would have broken checkout on a live Saturday morning without staged testing first.

For live business sites, yes. For personal or archived sites, sometimes. A business site on WordPress or WooCommerce needs maintenance because the platform releases security patches on a fixed cadence and plugins can break each other on any release day. Ignore that cycle and the site drifts toward one of three outcomes: an outage, a compromise, or a slow SEO decay as Core Web Vitals slip out of the good bucket. Website maintenance packages catch all three before they cost real revenue for customers. For a fully static site with no forms and no CMS, you can stretch to a quarterly check-in. For anything with a login, a form, a payment integration, or a customer account, monthly is the floor and weekly is the standard. Skipping a full year of patches typically means an 8 to 15 hour hardening pass at $95 to $150 per hour before the site can safely take updates again. That one-time bill often exceeds a full year of monthly coverage. Google Search Central covers why site quality signals matter for indexing.

A WordPress site typically runs $199 to $499 per month with a bundled website maintenance package that includes hosting, weekly core and plugin updates, nightly encrypted backups, uptime monitoring, and content edit hours. Managed WordPress hosting alone lands between $30 and $200 per month depending on traffic. Add security services, backup storage, uptime monitoring, and edit labor and the true monthly cost climbs above the bundled retainer once you price every line item. Small brochure sites can sit near $199. Medium content sites with 10,000 to 50,000 monthly visitors fit the $299 tier. WooCommerce stores or membership sites justify the $499 tier because of the ecommerce plugin footprint and the higher stakes on downtime. Our website maintenance packages include 1 to 4 content edits per month, or a custom count on Enterprise, a monthly report, and a shared ticket queue at every tier. Customers get one invoice and one point of contact instead of chasing hosting, security, backups, and developer time from four separate vendors on four different renewal dates.

Run six recurring jobs on a weekly and monthly rhythm. Weekly: patch WordPress core, patch plugins in priority order after staging tests, review the security scan, and verify one backup restores cleanly on a fresh URL. Monthly: review Core Web Vitals against last month, run a broken-link scan, audit the plugin footprint for anything abandoned by its author, and write a one-page report of what changed. Quarterly: review PHP version support, WCAG accessibility gaps, and the plugin license renewals. Our website maintenance packages automate this rhythm on a documented calendar so nothing slips through the cracks. Customers get the monthly report by email on the first business day of each month with patch counts, incident count, backup verification results, and any items flagged for the next quarter. If you run it yourself, block out 3 to 5 hours per week for a business site and 1 to 2 hours per week for a static brochure site. WordPress support docs cover the core patch process step by step.

Budget $299 to $499 per month for a serious WooCommerce store on a website maintenance package. The upcharge over a brochure site pays for the ecommerce plugin stack. WooCommerce core, payment gateway plugins, tax and delivery-rate calculators, subscription and membership add-ons, and any custom checkout code. Each has its own patch cycle and each carries revenue risk on a broken update. Stores doing under $50,000 per year in revenue often sit at the $299 tier. Stores between $50,000 and $500,000 fit at $499. Larger stores usually need a custom-scoped agreement with a custom edit count and priority response inside 4 business hours. The included work covers plugin patches on staging first, nightly encrypted backups, uptime pings every 60 seconds from three regions, weekly cart-flow testing, and monthly Core Web Vitals measured against the live checkout page. Customers on the $499 tier also get a quarterly conversion-rate review comparing checkout completion month over month and a written list of the top three friction points found during cart-flow testing that period.

UK website maintenance packages typically run £150 to £400 per month for a WordPress or WooCommerce site, roughly $199 to $499 depending on the exchange rate. UK agencies price on the same tier logic as US shops. Small business band, growth band, ecommerce band. Hosting is often bundled and VAT sits on top of the sticker price at 20 percent. Freelancer rates in the UK run £40 to £90 per hour on a break-fix basis, which is broadly the same math as the US market once you factor in the extra outage risk without an SLA. If you sell to UK customers, look for a plan that runs uptime pings from a European region and stores backups inside UK or EU data centers for GDPR reasons. Our website maintenance packages hit all three even when the client is US-based and serving UK shoppers through a WooCommerce store. That covers ping origin, backup jurisdiction, and cookie consent compliance out of the box, which are the three items UK reviewers flag most on inherited sites.
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