What Site Care and Hosting Actually Covers

Every website we build carries Site Care and Hosting, and on the Monthly plan it is included in the one monthly price. The minimum is 12 months, then it runs month to month with 30 days notice.

People ask what it is for, which is fair. Here is the whole list.

What it covers

• Hosting and SSL, kept current
• Security patches and platform updates
• Uptime, monitored by us
• Domain setup included, registration billed at cost
• A person who knows your build when you need something changed

The last line is the one that matters most and the one nobody prices. When something needs changing you are not filing a ticket with a company that has to go and read your site first. You are texting the studio that wrote it.

Why it is not optional

Because an unmaintained site is not a saving. It is a slow problem.

Certificates expire. Platforms move underneath you. A dependency that was fine in March has a security advisory against it by autumn. None of that announces itself: the site keeps looking exactly the same right up until the morning it does not load, and by then the person who could fix it has not looked at it in a year.

We would rather charge a small amount every month and keep the thing healthy than quote you an emergency.

What it is not

It is not a redesign, and it is not unlimited new pages. A small change, a new photograph, a price that moved, a member of staff who left: that is care, and new pages and content inside your tier come with the plan. A second version of the site is a new build. The rate sheet shows what each tier includes.

It is also not SEO. We do not sell rankings, we do not sell reports, and the care plan does not quietly include a service we do not offer.

If you already have a site somebody else built, we can take it over. If you want one built, see what the Studio builds and what it costs.