Ongoing Support & Maintenance

Ongoing support and care, on retainer

Website care plans

Uptime monitoring, security patching, and backups — so nothing breaks while you're not looking. Keep your site secure, updated, and running, and spend your attention on the business instead.

// why it matters

Nothing breaks on the day you launch

It breaks fourteen months later, on a Saturday, because a plugin that stopped being maintained finally met a version of PHP it could not survive. Or it does not break at all — it just quietly gets slower, and further out of date, until updating it is a project instead of a patch.

The failure mode is almost never dramatic. It is deferral. Every individual update is easy to skip, and skipping is free right up until the moment it isn't. A site that has gone unattended for a year does not need maintenance anymore; it needs a rebuild, and that costs more than the year of care did.

A retainer is not insurance against disaster. It is what keeps the small stuff small.

// what it covers

What does between emergencies

Most of the value is invisible. These four things run continuously, whether or not anything is wrong — which is the point.

Watching

Uptime checks around the clock. If the site stops answering, we find out from a monitor, not from your customer.

Patching

Security updates applied on a schedule, not when a scan finally flags them. Most breaches exploit a fix that already existed.

Updating

Platform, plugin, and dependency versions kept current and tested, so upgrades stay small instead of turning into a rebuild.

Backing up

Automated backups that we actually verify. An untested backup is a guess, and you find out which it was at the worst moment.

And when something does need a human: you email a person who already knows your site, not a ticket queue that asks you to describe your problem to someone seeing it for the first time.

Three levels of care

Each tier describes what's covered. Pricing is scoped per site — a brochure site and a membership platform need very different amounts of attention, and charging both the same would mean overcharging one of them.

Basic

For businesses that just need the essentials covered.

  • Software, plugin & dependency updates
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Monthly backups
  • Monthly status report
Standard Support included
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Standard

For businesses that want a little more hands-on support.

  • Everything in Basic
  • Security scans & malware checks
  • Small content edits (up to 1 hour/month)
  • Third-party integration checks after updates
Standard Support included
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Premium

For businesses that want a true technology partner.

  • Everything in Standard
  • Up to 3 hours of dev or content work per month
  • Integration & API support
  • Quarterly strategy call
Premium Support included
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// when something breaks

Two levels of support

Support is separate from the plan itself, so you can pick how fast you need us without changing what we maintain.

A site that is down is urgent on every plan, at either support level. We don't make you wait in a queue because you're on the smaller plan or didn't buy the add-on — monitoring usually alerts us before you've noticed, and we start working on it then. The levels below govern everything that isn't an outage.

Standard Support

Included in every plan

Replies within a couple of business days

  • Email support for questions and requests
  • Non-urgent work handled in order received
  • Monthly status reporting

Premium Support

Included with Premium · add-on for Basic and Standard

Prioritized — usually same day

  • Your request jumps ahead of routine work
  • Direct phone line for anything time-sensitive
  • First in line when several things land at once

Premium Support can be added to any plan — you don't have to move up to the Premium tier to get a faster response. If your site is the thing your business runs on, it's usually worth it; if it's a brochure site, it usually isn't, and we'll say so.

Specific response windows, business hours, and holiday coverage are set out in your service agreement — that way you get real commitments with the details scoped, rather than a number on a web page.

// questions

The things people ask first

Not sure which plan fits?

Every site is different. Whether you're on WordPress, a custom stack, or something else entirely, we'll figure out what makes sense for your site and your budget. No pressure, no commitment.

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