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How much does a website cost in Ireland?
What Irish small businesses pay for a website in 2026, from a basic brochure site to an online shop, with the source; running costs, VAT, grants and how to compare quotes.
Website maintenance that keeps your site working for you
Plugins update, forms stop sending, a security certificate runs out on a bank holiday. We look after your WordPress site every month, so you hear it from us first.
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Your website breaks at the worst possible moment
Most of these happen quietly, until a customer tells you.
- The contact form stopped sending in the summer and nobody noticed.
- WordPress has 20-odd pending updates and you daren't press the button.
- The only backup sits on the same server as the site.
- Visitors got a “not secure” warning over the bank holiday weekend.
What changes when someone minds your website
How we get there
Updates go onto a copy first, then the live site, so one plugin doesn't take you offline. Backups are kept off your server and tested, and alerts tell us when the site is down or a form stops sending.
Small changes get done without chasing anyone, and a monthly note on your tracking page says 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 website maintenance works with us
First we bring your site up to date; then the monthly routine begins.
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 covers
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 whether your site needs attention now
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 July; 17 plugins are out of date and the only backup is on the same server.
2 · The monthly routine
- Booking form fixed and tested
- Updates tried 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
The monthly fee waits until your site is brought up to date
How the monthly fee worksQuestions about website maintenance in Ireland
What Irish owners ask before handing over their site. Add yours to the form.
What does website maintenance cover?
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. Details and price go in your proposal.
What does website maintenance cost per month in Ireland?
Ongoing maintenance in Ireland runs €35-€200/month, according to Vimar's 2026 guide. 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 charge and no minimum term.
Do you maintain websites built by someone else?
Yes, if they're WordPress. We start with a check-up and bring the site up to date, and if anything is fragile we say so before taking it on. The first monthly fee comes once that's done and you've checked it.
What do you do if my site is hacked?
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 notifying the DPC.
Is there a contract for website maintenance?
No minimum term: it's month to month 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 that keeps a site safe and working: updates tested before they go live, backups stored off the server, security monitoring, uptime alerts, form checks and small content changes. We look after WordPress sites, whoever built them.
More detail: Website maintenance
A site left alone gets more exposed every month
Most WordPress security problems come in through plugins and themes that weren't updated. Every month without updates adds known holes, and every skipped update 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 GDPR in Ireland: breaches, backups and your forms
Your contact form holds personal data, so a hacked site can also be a data breach. Under GDPR, a breach that risks people's rights generally has to be reported to the Data Protection Commission within 72 hours of becoming aware of it (DPC on breach notification). Updates, monitoring and tested backups make that much less likely, and if it happens we tell you at once with what we know.
We keep a record of who has admin access, which plugins are installed and why, and where the backups are, so whoever looks after the site after us finds it in order.
Looking after a WordPress site built with plugins
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 Ireland, and why
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 pays off, and when it doesn't
Pays off 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 keeping a website healthy
What goes well with maintenance
Website guides
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