WordPress Maintenance Service

WORDPRESS MAINTENANCE
WITHOUT CHANGING HOSTS

Professional WordPress maintenance without moving hosts. Tested updates, hardened security, off-site backups, round-the-clock monitoring and a real WordPress specialist on call, all on the hosting you already have.

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What’s Included

Complete WordPress Care, On Your Hosting

Every service our managed hosting clients get, delivered on the host you already use.

Tested Bi-Weekly Updates

WordPress core, themes and plugins updated every two weeks, applied to a staging copy and checked first, so a bad release never reaches your live site.

Security Hardening

WordPress hardening, firewall rules, login protection, brute-force blocking and proactive patching whenever a plugin you rely on gets flagged.

Off-Site Cloud Backups

Daily backups stored away from your host. A server failure or compromised account never takes your backups down with it. Restores handled by us.

24/7 Uptime Monitoring

Your site is checked around the clock. If it goes down or starts behaving strangely, we are alerted immediately, usually before you would notice.

SSL Setup & Monitoring

Certificates installed, renewed and watched for expiry, with mixed-content warnings and redirect problems fixed properly.

Cloudflare CDN Setup

Configured correctly on your domain with real cache rules and compression, so pages load fast worldwide no matter where your server sits.

Unlimited Expert Support

Email and chat support from one WordPress specialist who knows your site, not a rotating queue of tier-one agents.

Plain-English Monthly Report

What was updated, what was blocked, how your uptime and performance looked. No jargon, no 40-page PDF nobody reads.

Database Optimization

Post revisions, expired transients and orphaned data cleared out regularly, with tables optimized so your site does not quietly slow down over time.

2x
Updates Every Month
24/7
Uptime Monitoring
Daily
Off-Site Backups
Any
Host Supported
Pricing

One Plan, Priced Per Site

Everything above, on every site you add. No tiers, no feature gates, no contracts.

Maintenance Plan

WordPress Care

For sites staying on their current host

$49.88

per site, per month

Or $498.80 per site yearly, 2 months free

Get Started

Add as many sites as you need at checkout
No contracts · Cancel anytime

Every site includes

  • Bi-weekly tested updates
  • Security hardening & firewall
  • Off-site daily backups
  • 24/7 uptime monitoring
  • SSL setup & renewal
  • Cloudflare CDN setup
  • Unlimited expert support
  • Spam prevention
  • Performance monitoring
  • Staging environment
  • Monthly plain-English report
  • Restores handled for you

Maintenance or Managed Hosting?

The care is identical. The only difference is who runs the server.

Service Maintenance PlanYou bring the hosting Managed HostingWe run the server
Tested bi-weekly updatesIncludedIncluded
Security hardeningIncludedIncluded
Off-site cloud backupsIncludedIncluded
24/7 monitoringIncludedIncluded
SSL certificateSet up on your hostIncluded free
Cloudflare CDNIncludedIncluded
Expert WordPress supportIncludedIncluded
The server itselfYour hostAMD EPYC · NVMe SSD
Server-level performance tuningYour hostIncluded
Uptime guaranteeYour host99.9%
Free site migrationNot neededIncluded
Starting price$49.88per site / month$79per month
Is your host the problem?

Some Things Maintenance Can’t Fix.

Careful updates and daily backups keep a site healthy, but they cannot rescue slow hardware, repeated downtime, or a support queue that never answers. If the server itself is what is holding you back, hand that over too. Our Managed WordPress Hosting is everything on this page with the infrastructure included, and we move you across for free.

Free migration, zero downtime AMD EPYC · NVMe SSD 99.9% uptime guarantee Everything on this page, included

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$79

per month

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Managing More Than a Handful of Sites?

Agencies and businesses running larger portfolios get custom arrangements. Tell us how many sites you have and we’ll put together something that fits.

Talk About a Custom Plan
The Full Picture

What a WordPress Maintenance Service Actually Does for Your Business

WordPress powers a large share of the web precisely because it is flexible and extensible. That same flexibility is why it needs looking after. A typical business site runs a theme and fifteen to twenty-five plugins, each written by a different developer, each shipping updates on its own schedule, and each representing a potential security hole the moment it falls behind. A WordPress maintenance service is the ongoing discipline of keeping all of that current, secure and backed up, without you having to think about it.

⚡ Worth knowing: the overwhelming majority of hacked WordPress sites are not compromised through WordPress core. They are compromised through an out-of-date plugin or theme with a publicly documented vulnerability, one that already had a patch available.

Why Updating Plugins Yourself Is Riskier Than It Looks

Clicking “update all” in the WordPress dashboard takes about four seconds. That is exactly the problem. Plugin authors push changes that occasionally conflict with your theme, with another plugin, or with a customisation a developer added two years ago. When that happens on a live site, the failure is public: a broken layout, a checkout that stops working, or a white screen where your homepage used to be, often discovered by a customer rather than by you.

Professional maintenance solves this by changing the order of operations. Updates are applied to a staging copy of your site first, checked against the pages and functions that matter, and only then moved to production. When a conflict appears, it appears somewhere harmless, and the fix happens before anything reaches your visitors. This is the single biggest practical difference between a maintenance service and doing it yourself.

Maintenance Without Changing Hosts

Plenty of businesses have good reasons to stay where they are. The hosting may be part of a larger contract, an internal IT team may own the relationship, a developer may have set everything up years ago, or the current provider may simply be doing a perfectly adequate job. Wanting professional WordPress care has never actually required changing any of that.

This service runs entirely on your existing hosting. We work through WordPress administrator access and your hosting control panel, and the site never moves. Everything above the server layer (updates, security, backups, monitoring, CDN, SSL, support) becomes our responsibility. Everything at the infrastructure layer stays with your provider, where you have chosen to keep it. If you would rather hand over the whole stack, our managed WordPress hosting does exactly that, with free migration included.

What Neglect Actually Costs

Security Breaches

Professional malware removal and cleanup typically runs several hundred to a few thousand dollars per incident, before counting the lost sales, the Google blacklist warning, and the damage to customer trust that takes months to rebuild.

Downtime Nobody Noticed

Without monitoring, an outage lasts until somebody happens to visit the site and mentions it. That is frequently hours, and occasionally a full weekend of lost enquiries and abandoned carts.

Backups That Were Never Tested

Many sites have backups running on the same server they are meant to protect, or backups that quietly stopped working months ago. Both feel like insurance right up to the moment you need them.

Gradual Performance Decay

Sites rarely slow down overnight. Database bloat, accumulated plugins and unoptimised images compound quietly until pages take three seconds longer than they did at launch, and rankings follow.

Who Should Be on a Maintenance Plan

Any WordPress site the business actually depends on. If your site generates leads, takes bookings, processes orders, or simply represents your company to people deciding whether to trust you, it needs the same routine care as any other piece of business infrastructure. That is doubly true for WooCommerce stores, where an outage or a broken checkout translates directly into lost revenue.

It is equally valuable for agencies and freelancers. Building a site and then being informally on the hook for it forever is a poor arrangement for everyone involved. Handing maintenance to a specialist gives your clients a better service and gives you your evenings back. If a site also needs a performance overhaul, our WordPress speed optimization service pairs naturally with ongoing maintenance.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions About WordPress Maintenance

The questions people ask most before handing their site over to someone else.

No. That is the entire reason this service exists. Your site stays exactly where it is and we work through your existing WordPress and hosting panel access. If you later decide you would rather we ran the server too, our managed WordPress hosting includes free migration.
Almost certainly. The service works with any standard WordPress hosting, including cPanel and Plesk hosts, SiteGround, Kinsta, WP Engine, Cloudways, DigitalOcean and most others. A small number of heavily locked-down platforms restrict staging or file access. If yours is one of them, that is identified during the onboarding audit and you are told exactly what is and is not possible before your second month is ever charged.
The care is identical. The difference is who runs the server. With managed hosting we own the infrastructure, so performance tuning reaches down to the hardware and uptime is our responsibility. With the maintenance plan your host owns that layer, and we handle everything above it: updates, security, backups, monitoring, CDN, SSL and support.
It gets caught before it reaches your visitors. Every update is applied to a staging copy first and checked against the pages and functions that matter. If something breaks there, the update is held back and the conflict is investigated properly. In the rare case something slips through to production, it is rolled back from backup immediately at no additional cost.
As many as you like. Pricing is a flat $49.88 per site per month, and you set the quantity at checkout. Three sites is $149.64 a month on a single invoice, with the same specialist looking after all of them. Yearly billing gives you two months free at $498.80 per site.
No, and it is a very common starting point. The onboarding audit establishes exactly what condition the site is in. Routine catch-up work, such as overdue updates and clearing out abandoned plugins, is part of onboarding. If the site needs major remediation such as malware removal or a rebuild, that is quoted separately and honestly rather than quietly ignored.
No. Maintenance covers keeping your existing site healthy, secure and current, along with small fixes. New pages, design changes and new functionality are separate project work, and maintenance clients get priority scheduling for it.
Yes, and this matters more than most people realise. Backups are stored off-site, away from the server they protect, so a hardware failure or a compromised hosting account cannot take your backups down with your site. Restores are performed by us on request.
One WordPress specialist who learns your site, not a rotating queue of support agents. When you email, you reach the person doing the updates and the monitoring, which is why problems get solved rather than escalated.
Yes. There are no contracts, no minimum term and no cancellation fee. Cancel from your account and the subscription ends at the close of the current billing period. Your site, your backups and all of your access remain yours.

Stop Being Your Own WordPress Admin

Keep the host you have. Hand over the updates, the security, the backups and the 11pm panic. $49.88 per site, per month.

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