Website hosting & Maintenance
Why every site I host is on a care plan
Hosting and maintenance are one thing here, not two. I no longer host a website I don't also maintain, and there is no hosting-only option.
That is not an upsell. Most WordPress sites are broken into through an out-of-date plugin, not through the hosting itself. Once a vulnerability is made public, automated scanners start looking for sites running the affected version within hours. It does not matter how small the business is or how little traffic the site gets. The bots are not choosing targets, they are checking every address they can find.
Sites that go months between updates are the ones that get hit, and they put every other site on the same server at risk. So every site I host is updated on a weekly cycle and tested before it goes live, whether or not anything looks urgent.
If you would rather manage everything yourself, that is completely fine and plenty of businesses do it well. It just needs to sit on hosting you own and are responsible for, and I am always glad to help you move it across.
Care & Hosting
$150+GST per month
Everything your site needs to stay secure, maintained and visible, with room to add more whenever you need it.
- Managed WordPress hosting with Flywheel, including SSL and a staging site
- Weekly plugin, theme and WordPress core updates, tested on staging before they go live
- Daily off-site backups, with restores tested rather than assumed
- Continuous uptime and vulnerability monitoring
- All premium licences kept current, including Divi and any premium plugins your site relies on
- The Divi 5 upgrade, done properly on staging and checked page by page
- Keyword rank tracking for 10 search terms, with a monthly performance report
- 30 minutes each month for small changes, such as text edits, image swaps or updating your opening hours
The 30 minutes does not carry over to the following month. Anything larger, such as new pages, new features or design work, I will quote for first. Domain names and email hosting stay with your existing provider.
Month to month, cancel any time with 30 days' notice.
Add on any time, through your client portal