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Website maintenance packages from £85 a month

Hosting, updates, backups, monitoring and real development time, on one bill. The page below lists everything that happens for it — a care plan you cannot itemise is one you should not be paying for.

One bill Month to month Emergencies never extra You keep the export
Why one bill

Two suppliers, and neither one is responsible

Every business with a website has had at least one of these weeks. The plan exists to make them somebody’s job — ours.

01

The host says it’s the site. The developer says it’s the host.

Both are being honest and neither can prove it, so the site stays down while two companies email each other. When one company does both, there is nobody to point at.

02

Nothing is anybody’s job until it is urgent

Updates, certificates, backups and PHP versions have no owner between projects. They are fine, and fine, and fine, and then a plugin update takes the checkout down on a Friday.

03

Every small change becomes a negotiation

A twenty-minute job needs a quote, an approval and an invoice, so it does not get done. Six months later the site is quietly out of date in twenty small ways.

What you are paying for

Everything that happens, and how often

Most care plans are impossible to audit, which is why so many get cancelled at the first quiet quarter. Count these instead.

Every day
  • Off-site backup, kept for 30 days
  • Uptime checks from more than one location
  • Malware and file-integrity scan
  • Certificate expiry watched, renewed before it bites
Every week
  • Core, plugin and dependency updates applied on staging
  • Checkout, forms and logins tested after they land
  • Error logs read by a person, not just collected
  • Anything that needs your decision, raised
Every month
  • Your change allowance, used on whatever you want
  • Performance and Core Web Vitals checked against last month
  • A short report: what changed, what we found, what we suggest
  • PHP and platform versions reviewed before they go unsupported
When it breaks
  • The alert reaches a person who can deploy a fix
  • Restore from any of the last 30 days, in minutes
  • You are told what happened and why, in writing
  • No incident is ever billed as extra
Plans

Priced by what the site has to survive

Move up or down whenever. Nobody has to guess a year ahead which one they will need.

Care
£85 / month
One site that has to stay up, current and looked after.
Managed WordPress hosting — 30 GB storage, 100 GB bandwidth Free SSL, global CDN, staging site and 10 mailboxes Daily off-site backups, 30-day restore, weekly restore test Updates, firewall, malware scanning and uptime monitoring 1 hour of changes each month 2 social posts a month, written and scheduled
Start with Care
Most chosen
Presence
£150 / month
The site is looked after and something new goes out every week.
Everything in Care, on a larger plan — 60 GB storage 4 social posts a month, on your channels 3 blog posts a month, written, optimised and published Search engine submission and Google Business Profile kept current 2 hours of changes each month Monthly report: traffic, rankings, what we changed
Start with Presence
Growth
£350 / month
The website is a channel, and somebody has to be working on it.
Everything in Presence, on a larger plan — 100 GB storage 8 social posts a month across two channels 4 blog posts a month, researched against what people search for Ongoing SEO: technical fixes, on-page work, keyword tracking 4 hours of changes each month Priority response and a call every month
Start with Growth

None of these quite right? Build your own plan and see the price before you speak to anybody.

Hosting is in the price — this is not a plan fee plus somebody else’s hosting invoice. Third-party licences and ad spend stay yours, in your own accounts.

The allowance

Where the included time stops

It is real development time, not a ticket quota. Here is the line, so nobody discovers it during a disagreement.

Comes out of the allowance
  • Content changes, new pages, new sections
  • Design tweaks and layout adjustments
  • Adding or reworking a form
  • Fixing something that has stopped behaving
  • Plugin configuration and integrations that already exist
  • Advice — asking is never billed
Quoted separately, before we start
  • Paid ad spend and third-party licences, which stay in your name
  • New features and anything needing its own design
  • A redesign, or a new template from scratch
  • Integrating a system you have not connected before
  • Migrating from another platform
  • Third-party licences and ad spend, which stay yours
Before you ask

The awkward ones

What if I want more posts than the plan includes?
Extra social posts are £15 each and extra blog posts £60 each, added to the same monthly bill — or build exactly the plan you want and see the price before you talk to anyone.
Who writes the posts?
We do. You get them to approve before anything is published, and a plan can be paused for a month if you would rather bank the time.
Does the allowance roll over?
One month, so a quiet January pays for a busy February. It does not bank indefinitely — an allowance you can hoard stops being a reason to ask for small things, and asking for small things is the point of it.
What if a job is bigger than the allowance?
We tell you before starting, with a number, and you decide. Nothing above the allowance is ever done first and invoiced afterwards.
What does extra time cost?
£75 an hour, billed in 15-minute blocks, so a five-minute job is £18.75 rather than an hour’s minimum. It is quoted before it starts, every time. Plans exist so that most months you never see this rate at all.
How far back can you restore?
Thirty days, off-site, taken daily, on every plan, Care included. A restore is minutes, not an afternoon, and we test them rather than assuming — a backup nobody has ever restored is a rumour, not a backup.
What is the difference between the plans?
The hosting and upkeep are the same on all three. What changes is how much gets done for you each month: Care covers the site and two social posts, Presence adds blog posts and more social, Growth adds ongoing SEO and more of everything. If none fits, the plan builder prices exactly what you want.
Do you have to have built the site?
No. We look at what you have first, free, and say honestly whether we can look after it. Occasionally the answer is that it needs work before a care plan makes sense, and we would rather say so than take the fee and inherit the problem.
Am I tied in?
Month to month, cancel whenever. If you go, you leave with a full export and the hosting account is yours to move — the plan is not a way of holding your site.
What counts as an emergency?
The site is down, the checkout is broken, or something is compromised. Those are never billed as extra, whatever hour they happen at.
Is the hosting really included?
Yes — one bill, not a plan fee plus somebody else’s hosting invoice. UK infrastructure, and the account is in your company’s name.
What if nothing goes wrong?
Then you paid for the backups you did not need and the updates that did not break anything, which is what a good month looks like. The monthly report exists so a quiet month still shows you what was done.
Related

If a plan is not the right shape

From £120 Fixes & Rescue Diagnosis at no cost, a fixed price to fix it, and no obligation to stay with us afterwards. From £89/mo Website Management Updates, edits, monitoring and small changes handled monthly — the jobs that never quite reach the top of anyone’s list. WordPress Hosting Managed WordPress on fast UK infrastructure, with updates and backups actually done rather than merely offered.
Illustration of a website protected by backups, updates and monitoring
In short

What's included in a website maintenance package?

A good website maintenance package covers hosting, software and plugin updates, daily backups, security monitoring, uptime checks and a set amount of change time each month. Devute's care plans start at £85 a month and also include monthly content, all on one bill, month to month.

FAQ

Questions people ask.

Ask us directly
How much does website maintenance cost in the UK?

Website maintenance in the UK typically costs £50 to £500 a month depending on what's included. Devute's care plans are £85, £150 or £350 a month, covering hosting, updates, backups, monitoring, change time and content, with no long contract.

Do I need a website maintenance plan?

If your site takes enquiries or sales, yes. Unpatched plugins, expired certificates and failed backups cause most website outages and hacks. A plan makes those someone's job before they become an emergency.

Is hosting included?

Yes. Every care plan includes managed hosting with SSL, CDN, staging and daily off-site backups, so one company is responsible for both the site and the server.

Can I cancel at any time?

Yes. Plans are month to month with 30 days' notice, and you keep a full export of your site if you leave.

What if my site breaks or gets hacked?

Emergencies are never charged extra on a care plan. We restore from backup, find the cause and fix it, usually the same working day.

Do you maintain sites you didn't build?

Yes. We review the site first, fix anything urgent, then bring it onto a plan. WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify and custom sites are all covered.

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