Why should you buy a monthly website maintenance plan?
You’re a busy website owner or someone responsible for websites that does not have time to do the following:
- Keep your site secure and up to date.
- Repair broken pages.
- Optimize your website for speed.
- Debug website issues. Fix broken links.
- Protect your website from vulnerabilities.
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What’s Included in Each Plan?
Basic Monthly Website Maintenance Plan (Starting at $250 USD)
Do you need someone to keep an eye on your website and make sure it’s running optimized and secure? Consider this monthly website maintenance plan. Since every website is different, we will need to learn what base pricing satisfies your businesses needs.
- Regular Updates: Updates for plugins, themes, and core WordPress. All updates will be tested before being applied to your website.
- Uptime Monitoring: Ensure your site remains available with our uptime monitoring service.
- Visual Regression Testing: Catch any UI issues with visual regression testing.
- Fix Breakages: Work on a solution to fix issues caused by plugins and themes.
- Vulnerability Monitoring: Monitor site for vulnerabilities and try to fix them.
- Backups: Daily to Weekly backups of your website depending on how much your website is updated.
- Vulnerability Monitoring: If there is a security vulnerability found on your website, a solution will be found to fix the issues.
- Image Optimization: Optimize the images on your site for faster page loads.
- 3 hours of content updates: (e.g., flyers, links to article postings, events, page updates)
- Log Monitoring: Monitor your website and site logs for errors, site access, role access etc.
- Google and Bing Index Monitoring: Monitor your Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Reports to catch monitor alerts from search engines
Premium Monthly Website Maintenance Plan (hourly/estimated)
For more complex or custom maintenance needs, the premium plan offers flexible, hourly support. Also, all features in the basic plan are included, along with increased monitoring, updates, backups, and priority service.
- Coding: Helping to build custom features for your website
- Frequent Content Updates: including blog postings and new pages, this does not include content creation
- Consulting: Helping to plan, research, fix issues, and find the best solutions and services for your website
- Adding New Features: Install new features or functionality to enhance your website’s capabilities.
- E-commerce Website with an Inventory: Handling your website’s product management, payment gateways, and inventory systems.
- Responsive/Cross Browser Website Optimization: Ensure your website looks great on all major browsers and devices.
Can I do my own maintenance?
Yes, of course, but you will need to consider doing the following:
- Have an offsite backup solution other than your host.
- Keep your scripts, plugins, and themes up-to-date and create a maintenance schedule.
- Understand how to use and navigate the tools on your website domain, CDN, and hosting.
- Know how to check error logs and access logs on your host.
- Check all pages on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices and on different browsers (Safari, Firefox, and Chrome).
- If you are using WordPress, download a security plugin such as Solid Security to alert you about vulnerable plugins and themes.
- Scan your site with online tools such as Wave Webaim and Google Page Speed occasionally.
- Test all forms, payment systems, and site emails.
- Monitor site uptime and page speed.
- Sign up for Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, and Ahrefs Webmaster Tools.
- Inspecting the code of your website using your browser development tools
- If you are using version control systems (such as GIT) or package managers (NPM), keep them up to date.
What’s not included in the maintenance plans?
- Graphic Design
- Copy-writing
- Marketing
Some information above might not apply to your website since websites can be built on different platforms such as WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, etc. or be fully custom-built. Additionally, you need to keep a document, spreadsheet, etc. with any issues you encounter. If you need help, then please reach out to me and we can discuss your options.