Website Maintenance Plans
Your website is one of your most important business tools—but it isn’t something you can simply build and forget. Like any valuable investment, your website needs regular care to stay secure, functional, and effective. Without regular maintenance, small issues can turn into major problems — broken forms, outdated software, security vulnerabilities, or website features that no longer work properly.
You shouldn’t have to wake up worrying about questions like:
- Will my website go down?
- Will customers be able to contact me?
- Could I lose my website?
- Will hackers hurt my business?
To keep your website working at its best, ongoing maintenance is essential. Just like a car needs regular oil changes and maintenance to keep running smoothly, websites need regular updates, monitoring, and attention to help prevent problems before they occur.
With more than 22 years of website design and development experience, Off the Page Creations understands what it takes to keep websites secure, reliable, and performing at their best. We’ve created WordPress maintenance packages that range from essential website care to more comprehensive plans that include priority support and discounted website content updates. Unlike automated maintenance services, Off the Page Creations provides hands-on website care from an experienced team of designers and developers who understand how your website was built and how to keep it working properly. When updates, security issues, or unexpected problems arise, you have real people available to help.
Our maintenance packages cover important website needs and help keep your site secure, updated, and running smoothly. Our available plans include:
Essential Maintenance
- Reliable website care for businesses that need essential maintenance for security, and backups.
- Hosting Included
- Email Support
- Bi-Weekly Database Backups
- Monthly Vulnerability / Security Scan
- Monthly Plugin / Theme Updates & Testing (up to 15 plugins)
- Link Checking
- Content updates available at $125/hour as needed
Enhanced Maintenance
Most Popular- Reliable website care for businesses that need security, backups, and content updates handled.
- Hosting Included
- Email Support
- Bi-Weekly Database Backups
- Monthly Vulnerability / Security Scan
- Monthly Plugin / Theme Updates & Testing (up to 15 plugins)
- Link Checking
- Form Testing
- Priority Content Updates – Up to 6 hours per year included (tracked time). Additional updates can be performed at a discounted rate of $100 per hour.
Premier Maintenance
- Comprehensive website care with priority support and more included content updates.
- Hosting Included
- Email Support
- Bi-Weekly Database Backups
- Monthly Vulnerability / Security Scan
- Monthly Plugin / Theme Updates & Testing (up to 20 plugins)
- Link Checking
- Form Testing
- Priority Content Updates – up to 18 hours per year is included (tracked time). Additional updates can be performed at a discounted rate of $90 per hour
Why Website Maintenance Matters
Website Security
WordPress is the world’s most widely used content management platform, which makes it a popular target for malicious attacks. While WordPress developers regularly release security updates and patches, keeping your website secure requires more than simply clicking “update.”
Updates need to be monitored and tested to make sure everything continues working properly. Occasionally, a plugin or theme update can conflict with another website feature and cause unexpected issues. Regular security scans, updates, and testing help identify potential problems before they impact your website or your customers.
Keeping your website secure protects not only your business, but also your visitors and their information.
Updates & the Importance of Database Backups
Regular website updates are important for security, compatibility, and performance. WordPress, plugins, and themes are constantly being improved, but outdated software can create security risks or cause website features to stop working properly.
Regular backups provide an important safety net. If something unexpected happens, a recent backup allows your website to be restored quickly and reduces the risk of losing valuable information.
Database backups are especially important if you have an eCommerce site. Your database stores all your customers contact info and their order history. Losing that, would be detrimental.
Link Checking
Broken links can create a frustrating experience for visitors and make your website appear outdated. Links that worked when your site was created can change over time—pages move, websites are redesigned, posts are archived, or content is removed. It happens all the time.
Regular link checking helps ensure your visitors can find the information they need without running into frustrating error pages.
Form Testing
For many businesses, website forms are the primary way new customers contact them. A form that stops working can mean missed opportunities and lost leads. Forms and email notifications can sometimes stop working due to server changes, security settings, or new email provider policies. Regular testing helps ensure your forms are working properly and that important inquiries are reaching you.
Take away the worry of missed opportunities by choosing one of our Enhanced or Premier maintenance plans, which include regular form testing to help verify that important inquiries are reaching you.
Have questions about which maintenance plan is right for your business? Email us or give us a call today at (813-818-0682). We’d be happy to help you find the right level of website care.