Keeping it alive after launch.
Upkeep from $49 a month. Optional, cancel any time, and the site stays live either way because you own it. This is what most people want and almost nobody explains.
A website is not furniture. It sits on the internet being probed by bots, its software goes out of date, its contact form quietly stops sending, and the thing you wanted changed in March is still not changed in September because getting a quote for twenty minutes of work is more hassle than living with it.
That is what upkeep is for. Not insurance against disaster. The ordinary business of keeping something working and letting you change it without a conversation about money every single time.
The three plans, side by side
Keep It Live
$49 a monthThe floor. Nothing falls over.
- Hosting, SSL and your domain looked after
- Backups, and uptime watched
- Software and security kept current
- Two small edits a month, no quote needed
Keep It Growing
$129 a monthFor a site that is meant to bring in work
Most popular
Everything in Keep It Live, plus:
- Content updates whenever you need them
- A monthly report in plain English
- One new page every quarter
Keep It Selling
$299 a monthWhen the website is not the only channel
Everything in Keep It Growing, plus:
- Eight social posts a month
- Search performance monitored
- A monthly call, if you want one
- Cancel any time. Email us and we stop the next charge, same day, no notice period and no conversation about why
- Hosting stays in your name
- You own the site whether you pay us or not
- No setup fee and no minimum term
What it is not
- It is not a redesign. Big changes are quoted before we start.
- It is not insurance. If you break something yourself we will help, but that is a job.
- It is not required. Plenty of clients take the site and run it themselves, and the site keeps working, because it is yours.
- Cancelling stops the next charge. It does not refund the current month.
What happens if you do not have one
Nothing dramatic, and that is rather the problem. The site keeps working until the day it does not. Software drifts out of date, a form breaks quietly, and the first you hear of it is a customer saying they tried to get hold of you last month. Our own free check exists partly because that is the most common thing we find on sites nobody is looking after.
Not sure whether yours needs looking after?
Run the free check on it. It grades your front page in about eight seconds and will tell you whether anything is actually wrong before you spend a penny.
Building something new? Upkeep comes as part of the handover on every website package, and you decide then whether to keep it.