Option 1: Do it yourself
Follow the steps in this guide. Free, and typically a few hours of careful work.
Option 2: Just contact us
Skip every step below. $49/mo and it is sorted.
Why this matters
Websites decay. Plugins fall behind, forms stop delivering, certificates expire, images pile up and speed drifts downward. None of it is dramatic and none of it announces itself, which is exactly why unmaintained sites lose money quietly for months before anyone investigates.
What good looks like
A defined scope in writing, a response time you can hold someone to, updates run in a safe tested sequence with the ability to roll back, backups that have actually been restored at least once, and a monthly report you can read without a translator. Anything vaguer than that is a subscription rather than a service.
The questions worth asking any provider
What is your average first response time, in writing? Who actually performs the work? What is explicitly excluded, particularly malware removal versus mere scanning? Is it month to month? Can I see a sample monthly report? Providers who answer crisply are safe at any price; providers who go vague are expensive at any price.
Doing it yourself
Entirely viable if you will spend three to five hours a month consistently and keep verified off-site backups. The failure mode is never difficulty; it is that nobody owns the task once the business gets busy.
Frequently asked questions
How much should this cost? $49 to $150 per month for a standard business website and $150 to $300 for an online store with a serious provider.
How quickly can a provider start? Usually the same business day once secure access is handed over. Urgent issues should be triaged immediately.
Will updates break my site? Not when they are sequenced, tested on staging where it matters, snapshotted first and reversible in one step.
Is there usually a contract? There should not be. Month to month terms with a clean handover of access and backups is the standard worth insisting on.
You do not have to do any of this yourself
Our engineers handle security, updates, speed, backups and fixes for you, with a 12-minute average response and a 99.99% uptime target.