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 $50 USD)
Who is this for: You want to manage your own content but need someone to handle updates and security patches. Site security and uptime are your primary concerns.
- Backups: Weekly scheduled backups.
- Regular Updates: Weekly plugin, theme, and WordPress core updates.
- Uptime Monitoring: Automated alerts on site failure.
- Content Edits: Two small edits per month, estimated at 30 minutes or less each.
Standard Monthly Website Maintenance Plan (Starting at $150 USD)
Who is this for: Your site requires frequent content updates. Your site includes custom elements or page builders such as Elementor that may break after updates. You need ongoing monitoring of site performance, security, and search health.
- Regular Updates: Plugin, theme, and WordPress core updates; all tested before deployment.
- Uptime Monitoring: Automated alerts on site failure.
- Visual Regression Testing: Automated UI checks run after updates to catch layout or display breakage.
- Fix Breakages: Resolution of conflicts caused by plugin or theme updates.
- Vulnerability Monitoring and Remediation: Ongoing scanning; patches applied as available.
- Broken Link Monitoring: Scheduled checks; broken links flagged and fixed.
- Backups: Daily to weekly backups depending on how often your website is updated.
- Image Optimization: Compression applied to reduce page load times.
- 3 Hours of Content Updates: Includes flyers, event listings, article links, and page edits per month.
- Log Monitoring: Error logs, site access logs, and role access reviewed.
- Google and Bing Index Monitoring: Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools reviewed for indexing, crawl errors, and performance alerts.
Premium Monthly Website Maintenance Plan (hourly/estimated)
Who is this for: You require full or near-full management of one or more sites. Your site is fully custom or runs WooCommerce. Downtime has a negative business impact. All updates are tested on a staging environment before deployment. Includes all Standard Plan features plus flexible, priority hourly support.
- Custom Feature Development: Scoped and built to project requirements.
- Frequent Content Updates: Including blog posts and new pages; does not include content creation.
- Consulting: Planning, research, troubleshooting, and vendor or service recommendations.
- Feature Installation and Configuration: New plugins, integrations, and third-party services.
- E-commerce Management: Product updates, payment gateway configuration, and inventory system maintenance.
- Responsive/Cross-Browser Optimization: Tested across current browser versions and device breakpoints.
- Staging-First Updates: All updates tested on a staging or development environment before going live.
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.