Your time is precious. Business owners never seem to have enough hours in the day. Free up the time you spend maintaining your website with professional WordPress maintenance services so you can focus your time where it matters most to your blog or business – writing, conquering social media, customer relations – whatever you never have enough time to do. In addition to reclaiming your time, you’ll gain peace of mind knowing that your website secured, backed up regularly, updated, and cared for by a professional with 20+ years of IT experience.
Maintenance
Basics
Bloggers On A Budget
per month per site$250 (US)
per year per site
Maintenance
Plus
For Websites Of All Sizes
per month per site$400 (US)
per year per site
Maintenance
Premium
Value For Your Money
per month per site$550 (US)
per year per site
Not sure which service is right for your website? Examine the specifics of the WordPress maintenance plans in the feature comparison chart below. You can click on features in the left column to jump down to read additional details if you need more information.
WordPress Maintenance Plan Comparison
| Feature | Basics | Plus | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nightly Backups | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 12 Hour Backups | $5 (US) per month | ||
| 6 Hour Backups | $10 (US) per month | ||
| Continuous Backups | $20 (US) per month | ||
| Safe Updates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spam Removal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Database Maintenance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Helpdesk Access | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security Hardening | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security Upgrade | $5 (US) per month | ||
| Malware Scans | Monthly | Weekly | Daily |
| COMING SOON – Website Staging | $10 (US) per month | ||
| Discounts on Services | 5% | 10% | 15% |
| Free “Speedy Solutions” | ✕ | 1 Monthly | 1 Weekly |
| COMING SOON – Broken Link Scanning | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| COMING SOON – Broken Link Repair | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Uptime Monitoring | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monthly Maintenance Reports | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enhanced Monthly Reports | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
Website Backups
All WordPress maintenance service client websites are backed up nightly to protect against unforeseen problems that may arise – guaranteeing that even in the event of disaster, your website will be back online as quickly and painlessly as possible. Clients whose sites are updated multiple times a day can opt to increase the backup interval for an additional fee: $5(US) / month for 12 hour backups or $10(US) / month for 6 hour backups or $20(US) / month for real-time continuous backups. Clients who pay for a full year in advance receive two months of upgrades free.
Safe Updates
There are times when WordPress plugins or themes are updated that the update can fail and leave your website broken. “Safe” updates involve making a backup of your site before the updates are applied. This way, if something fails during the update that causes the site to break, the site can be immediately returned to its previous working state.
Spam Removal
You don’t need to worry about monitoring and removing comment spam your website’s posts. All WordPress maintenance service clients receive spam monitoring and removal as part of their service.
Database Maintenance
The more your WordPress website grows, the more that its MySQL database will grow with it – potentially causing your site’s performance to suffer. Regular maintenance (removing old post revisions and database optimizations) will help keep your website running at its best.
Helpdesk Access
All WordPress maintenance service clients have access to my helpdesk support site where they can report problems, request service, and view updates on the status of their tickets. Additional features are planned / in-the-works (such as real-time chat) to make it an even more useful tool for clients.
Security Hardening
WordPress maintenance service client sites that don’t have any form of website security will be setup with a web application firewall and configured to prevent brute force attacks against your WordPress user accounts. Clients who wish to upgrade to the pro version of the firewall can do so for $5(US) / month. Clients who pay for a full year in advance receive two months of upgrades free.
Malware Scans
All WordPress maintenance service client websites are scanned regularly for malware and are monitored for vulnerabilities introduced through WordPress plugins and whether the sites are blacklisted by one of the various services that warn others that sites could be spreading malware. Maintenance Basics client websites are scanned monthly, Maintenance Plus client websites are scanned weekly, and Maintenance Premium client sites are scanned daily.
Discounts on Services
WordPress maintenance service clients receive discounted rates on other services. For example: if you want to have your WordPress website performance optimized and the quote for service is $195, but you get a 10% discount because you are a Maintenance Plus customer, your service instead will cost $175.50.
Free “Speedy Solutions”
Maintenance Plus and Maintenance Premium package clients get free “Speedy Solutions” – services that take 45 minutes or less to perform – making the services incredible values for the money spent. Maintenance Plus package clients receive 1 free service per month. Maintenance Premium package clients receive 1 free service per week.
COMING SOON – Broken Link Scanning
Broken links can frustrate visitors and cause SEO ranking problems. Once this feature becomes available, Maintenance Plus and Maintenance Premium WordPress maintenance service client sites will be scanned for broken links. Maintenance Plus client sites will be scanned once a month. Maintenance Premium client sites will be scanned weekly.
COMING SOON – Broken Link Repair
In addition to broken link scanning, Maintenance Premium package clients with broken links will receive link repair services – the affected links will be repaired or removed as appropriate – as part of their regular website maintenance.
Uptime Monitoring
Maintenance Plus and Premium package client websites are monitored continuously to ensure they’re operating at all times. Website status is checked every 5 minutes. If the site is found to be “down” the system will wait 5 minutes and check the site status again to see if the problem has been resolved before sending out notification emails that the site is offline. For clients who desire it, the scanning interval can be reduced to every minute with zero delay in notification – though I generally recommend against such a change as you can get false positives that way.
Maintenance Reports
WordPress maintenance service clients receive a report each month detailing the services performed on their website. Report details include information such as plugin updates (ex: Yoast SEO updated from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2) or backup details (number of restore points and last backup date & time).
Enhanced Monthly Reports
The monthly reports for Maintenance Premium package clients include information on their site’s Google Analytics, SEO rankings, and site speed. For Google Analytics reports, clients must grant access to view their analytics data. Directions on how to do this are provided. For the SEO ranking report, clients must provide a list of up to 100 keywords they would like tracked. This report not only provides info on your rankings over time but also identifies what sites are your closest competitors and how you compare to them.
