Your site keeps
running and safe.
A site is not a piece of furniture: certificates expire, packages get security holes, and a backup nobody has ever restored is not a backup. For a fixed monthly fee I keep on top of that, small text changes included. Cancel any month.
What goes wrong without maintenance.
Expired certificate
Visitors get a red warning from their browser before they see your site. Google penalises it, customers leave immediately.
No working backup
Something does get written away, but nobody has ever tested whether you can restore it. You find out at the worst possible moment.
Security holes
Outdated packages are the most used way in for abuse. If customer data sits in there, it is a GDPR problem too.
Nobody notices it is broken
Without monitoring you hear from a customer that your site is down, usually a day later than you would like.
Forms that go quiet
Enquiries end up in the spam box or nowhere at all. The revenue you miss because of it never shows up in your figures.
Small changes never happen
A price, an opening time, a team member who left. If each one needs a quote first, it simply does not get done.
What happens every month.
Updates and security
Framework and packages updated, vulnerabilities patched and SSL renewed automatically.
Backups that are tested
Daily backup of files and database, with a real restore test now and then. Otherwise you do not know whether it works.
Monitoring
Your site is continuously checked for availability and load time, so usually I know before you notice. I pick up recovery during office hours; if you want guaranteed response times outside them, we agree that separately.
Small changes
Text, prices, photos, an extra page: small edits are included. Bigger work I quote separately, always up front.
- ✓Fixed monthly fee, cancel any month
- ✓Updates, backups and monitoring
- ✓SSL and domain management handled
- ✓Hosting inside the EU
- ✓Small text changes included
Even if I did not build the site, I will look at whether I can take over the maintenance. If it runs on something I cannot stand behind, I say so honestly.
What does maintenance cost exactly?
Am I tied to anything?
Do you maintain WordPress sites too?
What about hosting?
What is not covered?
Tell me what you
want to build.
A half-hour call. You get an honest answer about what it costs, how long it takes and whether building it is smart at all.