Maintenance & support that keeps a site healthy, without a retainer
Keeping a Drupal or WordPress site secure, fast and backed up — patched on a schedule, monitored, and tuned when it slows down. Not a development retainer, and it doesn't need to be one: this is for a site that just needs to stay healthy.
What's included
- Security updates and patching. Core, module and plugin updates applied on a schedule, tested before they go live rather than left to auto-update and hoped over.
- Performance analysis and optimisation. Finding why a site has slowed down, not just monitoring that it has — caching, queries and front-end weight, looked at properly.
- Uptime and performance monitoring. Proactive, so a problem is usually found before it is reported.
- Backups. Taken regularly, tested, and actually restorable.
- Responsive fixes. Small issues that come up between planned work, without needing a development retainer to cover them.
How this differs from development, and from hosting
Not a development retainer. No development hours are included — this keeps a site healthy, it doesn't extend what it does. If you're starting to ask for new features rather than fixes, that's a Drupal Development & Support or WordPress Development & Support conversation, and this plan rolls straight into one.
Not tied to hosting. Sold independently — I'll keep a site patched and monitored wherever it's hosted, and a hosting client isn't required to add it. If you'd rather have one person managing both the server and what runs on it, see Managed Hosting.
Pricing
Priced on scope — how much is running, how quickly you need a response — rather than a flat fee that assumes every site is the same. Get in touch for a plan sized to yours.
Who it's for
Organisations with a Drupal or WordPress site that works, and just needs to keep working — no active project underway, no developer on staff, but a real cost to it going down, getting compromised, or quietly slowing to the point where it starts losing visitors.
Want your site kept secure, fast and backed up — without hiring a developer full-time?
Tell me a bit about the site — what it runs on, roughly how big it is, whether anyone is currently looking after it. I usually reply within one to two working days.