Hosting & Maintenance

Website Hosting & Maintenance

Hosting • Updates • Backups • Security

Your website needs more than a place to live. WordPress, themes and plugins are updated all the time, security threats change every week, and a site that is not looked after slowly becomes slower and less secure. Our hosting plans include maintenance, so all of this is handled for you.

We host websites with trusted, well known hosting providers and look after them ourselves. You get one team for your hosting, updates, backups and small fixes, instead of chasing a hosting company and a developer separately.

Hosting and maintenance plans

  • Standard Website Hosting, R750 a month: for business websites. Includes secure hosting with a trusted provider, WordPress core, theme and plugin updates, regular backups and security scans, website optimisation and mobile responsiveness checks.
  • e-Commerce Website Hosting, R1,500 a month: for online stores. Includes everything in the standard plan, plus WooCommerce updates and payment gateway and checkout checks.

Both plans include a free monthly online meeting with us to talk about your website, your goals and anything that needs attention.

What our maintenance covers

  • Updates: WordPress core, themes and plugins, tested so contact forms, maps and page layouts keep working.
  • Security: malware scans, login protection and firewall checks.
  • Backups: regular backups stored off site, so your website can be restored if something goes wrong.
  • Speed: image and database optimisation and caching to keep pages loading quickly.
  • Uptime: monitoring so we know when your site goes down and can get it back online.
  • Broken links and errors: we find and fix 404 errors and broken links that hurt SEO and trust.
  • Support: help when something breaks or you are not sure how to do something.

Why cheap hosting often costs more

Budget hosting usually means you are on your own. Updates get skipped, backups are never checked and nobody notices when a plugin breaks the contact form or the site gets hacked. Fixing a hacked or broken website almost always costs more than keeping it maintained. With managed hosting, someone checks your site every month.

Already have a WordPress website?

We also host and maintain WordPress websites that we did not build. We start by checking your site, update what needs updating and move it onto our hosting with as little downtime as possible. Read more about what WordPress maintenance includes, or see all our prices on the website pricing page.

Hosting and maintenance FAQs

Secure hosting, WordPress, theme and plugin updates, regular backups, security scans, speed and mobile checks, and a free monthly online meeting. Online store plans also include WooCommerce updates and checkout checks.

Yes. We look after WordPress websites built by other developers too. We check the site first, update anything that is out of date and then move it to our hosting.

Because we keep regular backups and scan for malware, we can usually restore a working version of your site quickly. We then find and fix what caused the problem.

Hosting without maintenance leaves a website to go out of date, which is how most WordPress sites end up slow, broken or hacked. Including maintenance means your site is looked after every month without you having to remember.

It is a short online meeting about your website and your goals. We talk through anything you want changed, how the site is performing and what to do next.

Shopify and Wix host their own websites, so our hosting plans are for WordPress. We can still help with design, updates and SEO on Shopify and Wix sites.

Hosting & Maintenance

What can we do for you?

Everything your WordPress website needs to stay fast, secure and up to date.

Secure Hosting

Reliable hosting with trusted, well known providers.

Updates

WordPress, theme and plugin updates, tested so nothing breaks.

Backups

Regular off site backups so your site can be restored quickly.

Security Scans

Malware scans and login protection to keep attackers out.

Speed & Mobile Checks

Optimisation and mobile checks to keep pages fast and tidy.

Monthly Meeting

A free monthly online meeting to plan improvements with us.

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