Website Maintenance That Keeps Your Site Reliable

Maintenance reduces both the risk of problems and the time needed to recover when something does go wrong. Software updates, security issues and third-party changes can cause unexpected problems, so backups, monitoring and a tested recovery process are useful before you actually need them.

Some managed hosts cover parts of website maintenance, while others mainly look after the server. We check what your hosting already includes, then cover the gaps such as updates, testing, backups, monitoring and content changes.

No. We take on sites we did not build. We start with an audit so we know what we are inheriting, and we will tell you honestly if something needs fixing before a care plan makes sense.

Website maintenance is the ongoing work that keeps a site secure, current and functioning reliably after launch. It can include software updates, backups, security checks, uptime monitoring, testing and small content changes. Every plan here starts with an audit of the site.

Plugin and core updates should be applied at least monthly, and security patches within days of release. The risk is not the update itself, it is applying it untested on a live site, which is why updates go on a staging copy first.

We take the site offline if needed, restore from the most recent clean backup, close the route that was used, and tell you plainly what happened. On a care plan this is included rather than an emergency quote.

Yes, and more so than for a large one, because a small business rarely has anyone watching. Most of what we prevent is not dramatic: an expired certificate, a contact form that silently stopped sending, an update that broke a layout. Each one costs you leads while nobody notices.

Yes. We audit the site first so we know what condition it is in, then take it on. If it was built in a way that makes it genuinely unsafe to maintain, we will say so rather than take a monthly fee for something we cannot stand behind.

New pages, redesigns, new features and anything that changes what the site does. A care plan keeps what exists working. Bigger work is quoted separately so you are never surprised by an invoice.

Clients most often add web design and development, a website redesign, AI automation, Google Maps and local search and digital marketing. Each has its own page, and any of them can start on the same call.