Website Maintenance and Hosting in Chicago
Keep your website secure and working as your business, software and content change. Our website maintenance services cover updates, backups, monitoring and small edits each month, with a clear response time when something goes wrong. Plans start at $45 a month.
What is website maintenance?
Website maintenance is the routine work that keeps a site secure, fast and accurate after launch: software and plugin updates, backups, security checks, uptime monitoring, fixes when something breaks, and content changes such as new hours, prices or staff. As your website maintenance company, we handle that work each month and tell you what was done.
Why website maintenance services matter
Websites don’t stay finished. Software, plugins and browsers change every month, and an out-of-date site is the easiest kind to break into. A missed update can take a contact form offline for weeks before anyone notices. A maintenance plan keeps the site patched, backed up and checked, and gives you one number to call when something goes wrong.
Website maintenance packages
- Essential: $45 a month
- Software and plugin updates, daily backups, uptime monitoring and security scans. Response within one business day.
- Growth: $59 a month
- Everything in Essential, plus 1 hour of content edits and a monthly report.
- Priority: $89 a month
- Everything in Growth, plus 3 hours of edits or improvements and priority response within four business hours.
What happens each month
- Platform and plugin updates
- Applied and tested so updates don’t break the site.
- Backups and recovery
- Daily backups, kept for 30 days, with restores included.
- Monitoring and fixes
- Alerts for downtime, broken forms and security issues. Fixes outside the plan are estimated before work starts.
- Content and site changes
- Routine edits within your plan hours. Larger work is quoted separately.
- Monthly report
- What was updated, what was fixed and how the site performed, including page speed from PageSpeed Insights.
Website maintenance checklist
- Every week
- Confirm that backups ran, review uptime and security alerts, and send a test form to check that inquiries arrive.
- Every month
- Test and apply core, theme and plugin updates, check for broken links and review page speed.
- Every quarter
- Review content for out-of-date hours, prices, staff and services, remove unused plugins and user accounts, and restore a backup to prove it works.
- Every year
- Check the domain and SSL certificate renewals, review the hosting plan, and check accessibility and privacy notices.
How much does website maintenance cost?
Our plans start at $45 a month. The price depends on the platform, how many plugins and integrations need updating, how many hours of edits you want each month and how fast you need a response. A small site on a hosted builder needs less than a WordPress store with payments and bookings. Compare plans on what’s included, not only the monthly price.
Website hosting options
If you need website hosting in Chicago, tell us what platform you use, how the site is hosted now and whether email or other tools share the account. We’ll recommend keeping your current provider or moving. Hosting location, billing, access and support are set out in the proposal.
WordPress maintenance services, plus Wix and Shopify
Maintenance matters most on WordPress, where plugin and core updates arrive every month. We also make content changes and fixes on Wix and Shopify sites, where the platform handles hosting and core updates.
What’s not included
New pages, redesigns, new features and third-party license fees are quoted separately. We’ll tell you before any work falls outside your plan.
Sites we didn’t build
Send the website address and any platform or hosting details you know. We start with an onboarding review of access, the current setup and any urgent issues.
Website maintenance FAQs
Do I have to sign a long contract?
No. Plans run month to month, and you can cancel with 30 days’ notice.
What if my site gets hacked?
We restore a clean backup, close the security gap and tell you what happened. Clean-up is included in the Growth and Priority plans, and quoted separately on Essential.
How fast do you respond?
Within one business day, and faster for a site that is down.
Can you maintain a site you didn’t build?
Yes, after an onboarding review.
Is hosting included?
Yes. Managed hosting on a fast, secure server is included in all three plans.
What’s included in a website maintenance plan?
Every plan includes updates, backups, uptime monitoring and security scans. Higher plans add hours for edits and a faster response. Each plan lists exactly what’s covered.
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