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How much does a website cost in the UK?
What UK small businesses pay for a website in 2026, from a DIY builder to an agency, with sources; the yearly costs after launch, VAT, and how to compare quotes.
Website maintenance that keeps your site bringing in enquiries
Plugins update, forms stop sending, a certificate expires on a Sunday. We look after your WordPress site every month, so you find out from us, not from a customer.
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Websites break quietly, usually at the worst time
Most of these happen quietly, until a customer mentions it.
- The contact form stopped sending weeks ago and nobody noticed.
- WordPress shows 23 pending updates and you're scared to press the button.
- Your only backup is on the same server as the site.
- Google warned visitors your site was “not secure” for a weekend.
What changes when your site is looked after every month
How we get there
Updates are installed on a copy first, then on the live site, so a plugin update doesn't take you offline. Backups are kept off your server and tested, and alerts tell us when the site goes down or a form stops sending.
You get small changes done without chasing anyone, and a monthly note on your tracking page of what was updated, checked and fixed.
Updates that don't break anything
Platform, theme and plugins updated on a copy first, with a backup before and a check after.
staging site
Problems caught before customers do
Downtime, broken forms and Google's warnings watched, and fixed before they cost you enquiries.
uptime and Search Console monitoring
Each month in a few lines
What we updated, what we fixed and anything you need to decide, on your tracking page.
How monthly website maintenance works
First we bring your site up to date; then the monthly routine starts.
Review
Platform, plugins, backups, security, logins and Search Console reviewed.
Tune-up
Pending updates, broken pieces, old admin users and missing backups fixed first, before any monthly fee.
Monthly routine
Tested updates, off-site backups, monitoring and a test message through your forms.
Changes when you ask
You text or email us a change; we confirm what and when, and send the before and after once it's live.
What our website maintenance packages cover
Updates, backups, security and small changes. The monthly price goes in your proposal.
- Updates tested first
- Backups you can actually restore
- Security watched
- Forms and buttons that work
- Google's warnings handled
- Small changes
We check your site for anything that can't wait
We look at your WordPress version, plugins, certificate, backups and forms from the outside and send you what's out of date, what's at risk and what we'd fix first.
- What we found
- The plan, page by page
- The fixed quote
- What we wouldn't do
Carles builds your site, and he's the one who reviews it in the audit. Òscar makes sure Google understands it. Who we are
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1 · What we found
Your class booking form hasn't sent an email since August; 19 plugins are out of date and the only backup is on the same server.
2 · The monthly routine
- Booking form fixed and tested
- Updates installed on a copy first
- Daily backups stored off-site
- Uptime and form alerts switched on
3 · Fixed quote
- Monthly fee
- In your proposal
- First invoice
- Once it's up to date
- Minimum term
- None
- Until then
- £0
No monthly fee until your site is up to date
How the monthly fee worksQuestions about WordPress website maintenance
What UK owners ask before handing over their site. Yours can go in the form.
What's included in a website maintenance package?
With us: updates tested before they go live, off-site backups, security monitoring, uptime alerts, monthly form checks, small content changes and a note on your tracking page of what was done. The detail and price go in your proposal.
How much is website maintenance per month in the UK?
Maintenance and updates cost UK businesses £25-£100/month, according to Whito. Ours depends on how your site is built, how many plugins it has and how often you change it. You get a monthly price in your proposal, with no set-up fee and no minimum term.
Will you look after a site someone else built?
Yes, if it's WordPress. We start with a check-up and bring it up to date, and if anything is fragile we tell you before taking it on. The first monthly fee comes once that's done and you've checked it.
What happens if my website is hacked?
We take it offline if needed, restore a clean backup, close the hole that let the attacker in and tell you what happened. If personal data may have been exposed, we give you what you need to decide on reporting it to the ICO.
Can I stop the maintenance whenever I like?
Yes. It's rolling monthly with 30 days' notice. The site, domain, backups and logins are yours, and we hand everything over in order to whoever you choose.
Website maintenance is the monthly care a site needs to stay safe and working: updates tested before they go live, backups stored away from the server, security monitoring, uptime alerts, form checks and small content changes. We look after WordPress sites, whoever built them.
More detail: Website maintenance
Each skipped update makes the next one riskier
Most WordPress security problems come through plugins and themes that weren't updated. Each month without updates adds known holes, and each update skipped makes the next one riskier.
In the free audit we check how up to date your site is, where its backups are and whether anything needs attention now.
Maintenance and UK GDPR: backups, breaches and your contact form
Your contact form collects personal data, so a hacked site can be a data breach as well as a nuisance. Under UK GDPR, a breach that risks people's rights must usually be reported to the ICO within 72 hours of finding out (ICO on reporting a breach). Monitoring, updates and tested backups make that much less likely, and if it happens, we tell you straight away with what we know.
We keep the boring paperwork in order too: who has admin access, which plugins are installed and why, and where the backups live, so whoever looks after the site after us gets it in order.
WordPress maintenance: what a plugin-built site needs
WordPress has three layers that update separately (WordPress itself, the theme and each plugin), often from different authors, and they don't always get along. An abandoned plugin or a premium theme with an expired licence stops getting security fixes even if the site keeps working.
The websites we build in web design are custom WordPress with only the plugins they need, so maintaining them is lighter. If your WordPress is so out of date that every fix breaks something else, we tell you, and sometimes a website redesign is what pays off.
Four things we look for when we take over a site someone else built:
“Update all”, on a Friday
Everything updated on the live site, with no backup and no test. If something clashes, the site is blank all weekend.
why we test on a copy first
Plugins stepping on each other
A security plugin, a cache plugin and a backup plugin each doing the same thing their own way, slowing or breaking the site.
Backups on the same server
If the server fails or the site gets infected, the backup goes with it. And a backup nobody has tried to restore can fail on the day you need it.
off-site backups
Forgotten admin users
Logins from whoever built the site years ago, a former employee or a previous agency, all able to change anything.
user review and two-factor login
What website maintenance costs in the UK, and why it varies
Keeping a site running has several costs, and it helps to separate them because they're paid to different people. The domain, the hosting and any premium licenses stay in your name and you pay them directly; the maintenance is the work. Ours has no published price: it depends on how your site is built, how many plugins it has and how often you change it.
When you compare quotes, ask where the backups are stored and whether anyone has tried restoring one, whether updates are tested first, what counts as a small change and how many are included, what happens if the site goes down on a Sunday, and whose name the domain and hosting are in. What other providers charge, with sources, is in how much a website costs.
What's included, point by point
Updates tested first
Platform, theme and plugins updated on a copy, with a backup before and a check after.
WordPress core, theme and plugins
Backups you can actually restore
Stored off your server and test-restored, so they work the day you need them.
off-site backups
Security watched
Monitoring, hardening, old admin users removed and cleanup if something gets in.
SSL, firewall, malware scans and two-factor login
Forms and buttons that work
Test messages through your forms and checks on your call and text buttons.
Google's warnings handled
Errors and warnings in Search Console checked and fixed.
indexing, Core Web Vitals and HTTPS
Small changes
Hours, photos, prices and copy updated when you ask, as set in your proposal.
When a maintenance plan is worth it, and when it isn't
Worth it if
- Your site works, but nobody checks it and you don't know if there are backups.
- Whoever built it isn't around anymore, and you need someone to take over.
- Your WordPress shows update warnings you're afraid to touch.
- You change hours, photos or services often and would rather send a text.
Not a fit if
- Your site needs rebuilding: maintaining what doesn't work drags the problem out.
- You want someone to write blog posts or run your social media each week, which are other services.
- You need someone on call at any hour for urgent changes.
More on looking after a WordPress site
What works alongside maintenance
Guides on websites
The next update is coming either way. Let someone test it before your site does.
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