Website Maintenance and Care Plans
Updates, backups, security and real developer hours every month, so your website stays fast, safe and readable by Google and AI assistants. Monthly plans with a 3-month minimum, then month to month.
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Digital FRK’s website care plans keep WordPress, WooCommerce and Shopify sites updated, backed up, secure and fast for businesses without a developer on call. We’re London-based and look after sites for businesses across the UK, Europe, the US and the Gulf. Plans include updates, backups, uptime monitoring, security scanning, speed checks and a monthly report.
- From: $99/month
- Minimum: 3 months, then monthly
- Onboarding: 3–5 business days
- Free onboarding if we built your site
What does a website care plan change?
- Updates pile upnobody wants to break the site
- Unknown backupswould a restore even work?
- No developer on callsmall changes take weeks
- Slowly slowernobody watches speed
- Weekly updatesstaged with rollback on Growth+
- Tested backupsdaily or real-time, off-site
- Website care planprotect + improve + report
- Monthly dev hours2 or 6 hours on Growth/Scale
- Speed and uptime watchedalerts if anything goes down
Summary: a care plan turns website maintenance from a risk you ignore into a routine with backups, monitoring, updates and a monthly report.
How long are backups kept on each plan?
- Starter: daily backups30 days
- Growth: daily off-site backups60 days
- Scale: real-time backups90 days
Retention periods from /pricing/. Uptime checks run every 5 minutes on Starter and every minute on Growth and Scale (with SMS alerts on Scale).
Is your website quietly at risk?
- Plugin and theme updates pile up because nobody wants to break the site.
- You don’t know when the site was last backed up, or whether a backup would restore.
- Small changes take weeks because there’s no developer on call.
- The site has slowed down over time and nobody is watching Core Web Vitals.
What’s included in a website care plan?
- Core, plugin and theme updates, staged with rollback on Growth and Scale
- Daily off-site backups (real-time on Scale)
- Uptime monitoring and security scanning
- Developer and content hours each month (Growth and Scale)
- Regular speed checks and fixes
- AEO and schema health checks
- A monthly report on what was done
How does website maintenance work?
Onboard
We audit the site, set up backups, monitoring and a staging copy. Free if we built your site.
Protect
Weekly updates, security scanning and uptime monitoring, with alerts if anything goes down.
Improve
Use your monthly hours for content changes, fixes and small improvements.
Report
A monthly report covering updates, backups, uptime, speed and the work completed.
How much does website maintenance cost?
Three levels of care. Growth suits most business sites; Scale is built for e-commerce and high-traffic sites.
| What’s included | Starter | Growth Most popular | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting from | $99/month | $199/month | $399/month |
| Core, plugin + theme updates | Weekly | Weekly, staged + rollback | Weekly, staged + visual regression tests |
| Backups | Daily, kept 30 days | Daily off-site, kept 60 days | Real-time, kept 90 days |
| Uptime monitoring | 5-minute checks | 1-minute checks | 1-minute checks + SMS alerts |
| Security | Monthly scan | Firewall + daily scan | Firewall + daily scan + malware clean-up included |
| Developer / content hours | — | 2 hours a month | 6 hours a month |
| Speed checks | Quarterly | Monthly | Monthly + fixes |
| E-commerce / checkout testing | — | — | ✓ |
| AEO / schema health check | — | Quarterly | Monthly |
| Reporting | Monthly email | Monthly report | Monthly report + quarterly review call |
| Support response | 2 business days | 1 business day | 4-hour emergency, same-day normal |
| Onboarding | 3 business days | 3 business days | 5 business days |
Need something bigger, such as a portfolio of 10+ sites, a custom SLA or white-label care for your agency? We scope Custom plans too. Every plan gets a fixed written quote after a free strategy call. Prices are “starting from” in USD and exclude VAT and third-party fees; see full pricing in USD, GBP and AED.
Which platforms do you maintain?
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- Shopify
- Cloudflare
- Google Search Console
- Google Analytics 4
Planning a rebuild? See website development. Want more traffic from search and AI assistants? See SEO and AI search.
Ad hoc fixes or a care plan: which is better?
| Ad hoc fixes | Digital FRK care plan | |
|---|---|---|
| Updates | When someone remembers | Weekly, staged with rollback on Growth and Scale |
| Backups | Unknown | Daily or real-time, kept 30–90 days |
| Problems | Found by customers | Uptime monitoring and security scanning with alerts |
| Cost | Unpredictable | From $99 a month |
Choose a care plan if your website matters to sales or leads and nobody on your team owns it. Scale suits e-commerce and high-traffic sites.
Where do we work?
- LondonOur home base, serving the UK
- UK and EuropeGrowth-stage brands across the UK and Europe
- United StatesBrands that need channels, CRM and data working as one system
- The GulfWhatsApp-first customer journeys, with Arabic and English support
You can be invoiced in USD, GBP or AED.
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