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Website Maintenance

Ongoing maintenance and support that keep your website secure, fast, and reliable.

Ongoing WordPress maintenance, security monitoring, plugin updates, performance checks, and technical support so your site performs its best. Starting at $125 per month.

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Ongoing Protection

Proactive maintenance that keeps your website running smoothly.

Consistent website maintenance protects your digital investment and reduces risk. Regular oversight ensures stability, security, and dependable performance over time.

Website Maintenance Services Made better by Expedition:

Core Updates

Regular updates to your CMS, themes, and plugins to maintain compatibility and security.

Security Monitoring

Continuous oversight to detect vulnerabilities and protect your website from potential threats.

Performance Checks

Routine monitoring of site speed and functionality to ensure a smooth user experience.

Backup Management

Scheduled backups that safeguard your data and allow quick recovery if issues arise.

Broken Link Audits

Ongoing review and correction of broken links to maintain credibility and usability.

Uptime Monitoring

Real-time alerts that notify us of downtime so issues can be resolved quickly.

Technical Support

Direct access to expert support for troubleshooting and maintenance-related questions.

Reporting & Insights

Clear maintenance reports that provide visibility into updates, performance, and overall site health.

Maintenance Plans

Three plans built for different stages of growth.

Every site needs maintenance, but not every site needs the same level of attention. Our plans are structured around the realities of how different websites are used — from low-traffic brochure sites that need basic upkeep to high-traffic lead generation sites that need active monitoring and rapid response.

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Maintenance Plan Options

Essentials

Consistent maintenance for stable websites.

$125/month

Includes:

Active

Active monitoring for growing websites.

$300/month

Everything in Essentials, plus:

Priority

Priority support for revenue-critical websites.

$600/month

Everything in Active, plus:

Pricing shown is for standard WordPress sites. eCommerce sites, multi-site installations, and sites with custom integrations are scoped individually. The $125/month starting price applies to the Essentials plan; final pricing is determined after the initial site audit. Need more than maintenance? If you want ongoing design and development hours alongside maintenance — for content updates, design refreshes, or new pages — our Creative-as-a-Service subscriptions bundle maintenance with discounted creative hours starting at $750/month.

Our Approach

A maintenance approach built for WordPress.

WordPress sites need different things at different times. Most issues are predictable and preventable when someone is paying attention. Some are urgent and need immediate response. Our approach is built around handling both without you having to think about it.

Every maintenance engagement starts with a full audit of your site’s current health. We document plugin and theme versions, identify outdated or vulnerable components, review backup and security status, and flag any pre-existing issues. This becomes the baseline we work against and ensures nothing is inherited as our problem to fix without it being acknowledged first.

Most maintenance work happens on a regular cadence. Plugin updates, theme updates, WordPress core updates, performance scans, security checks, and backup verification all run on schedule. Updates are tested in staging before going live whenever possible to prevent the all-too-common scenario where a routine update breaks a critical part of your site.

Between scheduled maintenance windows, your site is monitored continuously for uptime, performance issues, and security threats. If something happens, we know about it before you do. Most issues are resolved before they ever affect a visitor.

When something does need hands-on attention — a plugin conflict, a security alert, a performance degradation — our U.S.-based team handles it directly. No offshore tickets, no third-party support layers. The same team that knows your site fixes it.

You receive a clear monthly maintenance report covering what was done, what we found, and what we recommend. No vanity metrics, no jargon-heavy dashboards. Just a straightforward picture of your site’s health and any decisions that need your input.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about website maintenance.

Websites are built on layers of software — the CMS (like WordPress), themes, plugins, and the underlying server environment — that all release updates regularly. When updates are skipped, sites become vulnerable to security exploits, slower over time, and prone to breaking unexpectedly when one outdated component conflicts with another. Maintenance keeps all of that in good working order before problems happen, rather than reacting after they do.

A typical maintenance plan covers WordPress core updates, theme and plugin updates, security monitoring, malware scans, off-site backups, uptime monitoring, performance checks, broken link audits, and a monthly report summarizing what was done. Higher-tier plans add faster response times, more frequent monitoring, staging environments for safer updates, and included development hours for small fixes.

Website maintenance plans typically range from $50 per month for basic updates and backups to $500+ per month for active monitoring, fast response times, and included development hours. Our plans start at $125 per month and include hosting for WordPress sites. They scale based on the level of monitoring and support you need. eCommerce sites and sites with custom integrations are typically scoped individually.

Yes. Most of the sites we maintain were originally built by other agencies, freelancers, or in-house teams. We start every maintenance engagement with a site audit so we understand what we’re working with before we make any changes. If there are pre-existing issues that need to be addressed before ongoing maintenance can be effective, we’ll flag those upfront and recommend a plan.

Hosting is the server infrastructure your website runs on. Maintenance is the work done on the website itself like keeping software updated, monitoring for issues, fixing things when they break. You need both, but they’re different services. Some hosting providers include basic maintenance in their plans; most don’t. Our maintenance plans focus on the website-level work and also include basic hosting if managed hosting is desired.

Our uptime monitoring alerts us when your site goes down so we can investigate immediately. Response time depends on your plan tier — Essentials customers get a response within 1–2 business days, Standard customers get same-business-day response, and Priority customers get response within 4 hours. Most downtime issues are resolved within an hour of being detected.

Yes. WordPress plugin and theme updates are a core part of every maintenance plan. We test updates in a staging environment before pushing them to your live site whenever possible, which prevents the common scenario where a routine update breaks a key part of the site. If a plugin or theme has a known compatibility issue, we hold the update and notify you with a recommended path forward.

Yes. Maintenance plans are month-to-month with no long-term contract required. We do ask for 30 days’ notice so we can complete any in-progress work and provide you with a clean handoff of credentials, backups, and documentation. Most clients stay with us long-term because the value of consistent maintenance compounds over time, but the option to leave is always there.

Explore More

Maintenance is one piece of a healthy website.

A maintained site is the baseline. If you’re also looking for ongoing design and development support, conversion improvements, or a full rebuild of an underperforming site, we have services built for those too.

Creative-as-a-Service Subscriptions

Bundle maintenance with monthly design and development hours for ongoing content, page updates, and creative work.

Website Redesigns

If your current site has reached a point where maintenance alone won’t fix what’s broken, a full rebuild may be the better investment.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Maintenance protects your site’s foundation. SEO builds on that foundation to help you rank higher and reach more of the right people.

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