Hosting & Maintenance plans
Your site,
looked after every month.
Pick a plan, fill in one form, enter your credit card. The plan starts today. No call, no quote, no waiting.
Hosting & Maintenance
$150per month
or $1,500 for the year, which is 10 months instead of 12
For a site that is finished and needs to stay that way.
- Hosting, DNS, and SSL looked after
- Daily backups, restore tested each quarter
- Updates, security scans, and uptime monitoring
- Monthly report
- Changes
- No change requests included
- Reply
- Two business day reply
Most sites
Hosting & Maintenance Plus
$250per month
or $2,500 for the year, which is 10 months instead of 12
For a business that changes a price, a photo, or a hours line now and then.
- Everything in Hosting & Maintenance
- Up to two change requests a month
- Same business day reply
- Changes
- Up to two change requests a month
- Reply
- Same business day reply
Hosting & Maintenance Pro
$400per month
or $4,000 for the year, which is 10 months instead of 12
For a site that changes every week and needs to keep ranking.
- Everything in Hosting & Maintenance Plus
- Up to six change requests a month
- Quarterly title, meta, and speed check
- Changes
- Up to six change requests a month
- Reply
- Same business day reply
A change request is one edit to existing content on one page: text, an image, a link, a price, a form field, or a menu item. Extra change requests are $100 each. Anything that adds a page or a feature is a project with its own price.
Paying for the year costs 10 months instead of 12, so you get two months free on any plan. Sign up monthly first, then email me and I send one invoice for the year and switch you over. Cancel a prepaid year and the unused months come back to you.
In every plan
- Hosting and DNS on Duford Digital infrastructure
- Daily backups, with a restore tested every quarter
- Core, theme, and plugin updates, or dependency and build updates on Astro sites
- SSL certificate renewal
- Uptime monitoring with alerts
- Security monitoring and malware scanning
- Broken link and contact form check every month
- A monthly report by email, with a short list of anything worth doing beyond the plan
Features we can add to your plan
- A new page on your existing site, from $450 each
- A redesign or a new feature, quoted as a project
- Extra change requests beyond the ones in your plan, $100 each
- Local SEO setup at $2,500, or an SEO retainer at $1,500 a month
- Moving your site onto my hosting, from $750
- Cleanup after a hack that happened before your plan started, $720 one time
Domain registration, email mailboxes, and third party subscriptions such as booking tools, form services, or ecommerce apps are billed by the provider. Your domain stays in your name.
Sign up
Five minutes, then it is handled.
Answer eight short questions about your site. Submit takes you to a secure Stripe checkout page, where you enter your credit card. Your first invoice is dated today, and your plan renews every month.
Questions
Before you sign up.
- Can I pay for the year?
- Yes, and it costs 10 months instead of 12. That is two months free on any plan. Start on the monthly plan through the form, then email me and I invoice the year and switch you over. If you cancel partway through a prepaid year, the unused months are refunded.
- I am having a site built. When does hosting and maintenance start?
- You pick your plan before the site goes live, and billing starts on launch day. Hosting & Maintenance is not part of the build price. Every site launches on a plan unless you tell me in writing before launch that you are taking the hosting on yourself, in which case the hosting, DNS, security updates, backups, and monitoring become yours to run. Hosting, DNS, backups, and monitoring all live inside the plan, so the plan is what keeps the site up.
- Someone offers a hosting and maintenance plan for $29 a month. Why are you more?
- That $29 buys a hosting login and a promise. It has no monitoring, no tested backups, no monthly check, and no person who reads the report. Hosting & Maintenance is the work of keeping a site alive, done by the person who can fix it when it breaks, and you see the proof every month. If $29 is the right amount of hosting and maintenance for your site right now, take it.
- What is a change request?
- A change request is one edit to existing content on one page: text, an image, a link, a price, a form field, or a menu item. Extra change requests are $100 each, approved by email before the work starts. Unused change requests do not carry forward.
- My site is on Wix, Shopify, or Squarespace. Which plan?
- Hosting & Maintenance Plus or Hosting & Maintenance Pro. Those platforms host the site themselves, so the plan covers the change requests, the monthly check, and the report. Hosting & Maintenance on its own is for sites I host.
- I did not build my site with you. Can I still sign up?
- Yes. The form asks where the site is hosted today and whether you have the logins. If moving it to my hosting makes sense, that is a one time project I quote after I have looked at the site. The plan starts either way.
- What happens when I submit the form?
- You go straight to a secure Stripe checkout page, where you enter your credit card. The plan starts that day. I get your answers, I set up monitoring and backups, and your first report arrives in the first five business days of next month.
- Can I cancel?
- Yes, with 30 days written notice. When a plan ends, I move the site, DNS, and records to accounts you control within 30 days, at no charge.
- Do the prices include tax?
- No. Prices are Canadian dollars. GST is added at 5 percent on every invoice.