A site doesn't break on its own. It breaks when nobody's watching.
Updates, security scans, off-site backups, and uptime monitoring on a recurring schedule — plus priority time each month for the fixes and small changes that would otherwise sit in a queue.
Most sites don't fail from one big problem. They fail from months of small ones.
An unpatched plugin, an untested backup, a slow-creeping performance regression — none of it looks urgent until the week it is.
×No maintenance plan
- Updates applied in a rush, months behind, whenever something breaks
- Backups exist somewhere, untested, hopefully working
- Downtime is discovered by a customer, not by monitoring
- Every small fix becomes its own quote-and-wait cycle
- Security patches land only after something's already gone wrong
✓On a maintenance plan
- Updates tested on staging and applied on a fixed schedule
- Off-site backups, restore-tested, kept separate from hosting
- Uptime monitored continuously, with alerts before customers notice
- A monthly hours allowance covers fixes without a new quote each time
- Security hardening and scans run proactively, not reactively
Every task on a plan has a cadence and a reason.
Click a task below to see how often it runs, what it checks, and what a real log entry from it looks like.
Coverage scoped to how critical the site actually is
Not every site needs 24/7 monitoring. What's included is set to match the site's real risk and traffic, not a fixed package.
Core & Plugin Updates
Applied on staging first, verified, then pushed live on a fixed schedule instead of ad hoc.
Security Scanning & Hardening
Malware scans, file-integrity checks, and hardening of admin access, file permissions, and login attempts.
Off-Site Backups
Stored separately from hosting, on a daily or hourly cadence depending on how often content changes.
Uptime Monitoring & Alerting
Checked from multiple locations at short intervals, with alerts firing before a customer ever notices.
Performance Checks
Load time and Core Web Vitals tracked over time, so a slow regression gets caught before it compounds.
Priority Bug Fixes
A monthly hours allowance for fixes and small changes, without a new quote and wait for each one.
Plans scoped to what actually puts a site at risk
Uptime-critical storefront monitoring
5-minute interval uptime checks and same-day patch windows for a store where an hour of downtime has a direct revenue cost.
Compliance-driven patch cadence
A documented patching schedule and audit trail to satisfy a healthcare client's HIPAA-aligned hosting review requirements.
White-label support for an agency's client sites
Maintenance and support handled under the agency's own branding, with monthly reports the agency forwards directly to their clients.
Stabilization window after a rebuild
Closer monitoring in the weeks after a theme conversion or cloud migration, before settling into the standard maintenance cadence.
From first audit to a plan that runs quietly in the background
Baseline audit
Current plugin versions, backup setup, and known issues documented before anything changes.
Set up monitoring
Uptime checks, backup automation, and security scanning configured and verified against the live site.
First maintenance pass
Updates applied on staging, tested, then pushed live, clearing any backlog before settling into a cadence.
Ongoing cadence
Scheduled updates, scans, and checks run on the agreed interval, with alerts handled as they come in.
Monthly report
What ran, what was fixed, and how much of the hours allowance was used, sent every month.
Common questions on maintenance plans
What's actually included in a website maintenance plan?
How fast is the response when something breaks?
What happens if the site goes down?
Are the backups actually tested, or just taken and stored?
Does this cover non-WordPress sites and applications?
How often is reporting sent, and what's in it?
Can the plan be paused or cancelled?
What if an issue needs more time than the monthly allowance covers?
Often paired with a maintenance plan
Send the site. Get back a plan scoped to its actual risk.
Share the stack and how critical uptime is, and get a maintenance scope covering exactly what needs watching — not a flat package that over- or under-covers it.
Start a maintenance plan