Website Maintenance Services From One Developer
Website maintenance services keep a live site updated, backed up, secure and fast: core and plugin updates, theme and app checks, uptime and security monitoring, broken-link and form testing, and the small fixes that pile up. It is for businesses that depend on their site but have nobody watching it. Brand Overture maintains WordPress and Shopify sites from Phoenix.
Nobody is watching the site
Your website was launched, invoiced and forgotten. Plugins have forty pending updates. The SSL certificate renews on a card that expired. A form stopped sending in March and the leads went into a void. The homepage still shows a promotion from last year. When something breaks, you search for the developer’s email and find out they closed.
A website is a running system, not a brochure. Running systems need someone to check them.
How we maintain websites
Every month we update WordPress core, themes and plugins, or review Shopify theme and app settings, on a staging copy first and then on the live site once it passes. We keep off-site backups and test that they restore. We monitor uptime and security and get the alert before you do. We check speed scores, broken links, forms and checkout so the quiet failures do not stay quiet.
Then there are the small jobs: swapping the hero image, adding a staff member, fixing a layout glitch on one phone size, updating the hours. These are included up to the limit in your plan, and you send them straight to Terrence, not to a ticket system.
Each month you get a short report of what was updated, what was fixed and anything we think you should know about. If we see a bigger problem coming, hosting that is running out of room or a plugin that is no longer maintained, we tell you before it becomes an emergency.
What it feels like to have a maintained site
You stop thinking about the website. It is up, it is current, it is fast and it is backed up. Updates land without drama because they were tested first. When you need a change, you send a message and it gets done. When something does go wrong, the person fixing it already knows the site.
Childhelp’s site carries donation and get-help paths that people reach in difficult moments, so it cannot be down or slow. That is the kind of site we maintain. Book the free 30-minute call and bring the site you are worried about.
What Google measures. What we build to.
Core Web Vitals are Google's own speed and stability scores. Every site we launch is checked against them first.
LCP Largest Contentful Paint
How long until the main content is on screen.
- Good
- under 2.5s
- Needs work
- to 4s
- Poor
- over 4s
INP Interaction to Next Paint
How fast the page reacts when someone taps or clicks.
- Good
- under 200ms
- Needs work
- to 500ms
- Poor
- over 500ms
CLS Cumulative Layout Shift
How much the page jumps around while loading.
- Good
- under 0.1
- Needs work
- to 0.25
- Poor
- over 0.25
Thresholds published by Google for web.dev. Our standard is the target every launch is held to before it goes live.
What's included
Everything in scope. Nothing vague.
Your written scope lists each item, so you know what you are paying for before work starts.
- WordPress core, theme and plugin updates tested on staging first
- Shopify theme and app review after platform changes
- Off-site backups, tested for restore
- Uptime and security monitoring with alerts to us, not just you
- Monthly checks of speed scores, broken links, forms and checkout
- Small content and layout changes sent straight to Terrence
- A short monthly report of what was updated, fixed and flagged
How it works
The plan, step by step.
One person, Terrence, runs your project from the first call to launch.
Free call
Thirty minutes on your site, who built it and what has gone wrong before. You leave with a plan either way.
Onboarding audit
We review the theme, plugins, hosting and backups, fix anything urgent and document the site.
Monthly care
Updates on staging, then live. Backups, monitoring and checks. Small changes handled as they come in.
Monthly report
A short note of what was done and anything you should know about before it becomes a problem.
Proof from real work.
Real clients, real builds. No invented numbers.
Childhelp
Childhelp is a national child abuse prevention and treatment nonprofit. Its WordPress site carries the Donate and Get Help paths that people reach in difficult moments, so it cannot go down, fall behind on updates or load slowly. That is the kind of site we keep current, backed up and watched.
Pricing. No dollar figures on a web page can be honest without knowing your scope. After a free 30-minute call you get a fixed scope and price in writing before any work starts.
Questions about website maintenance.
How much do website maintenance services cost?
Plans are priced monthly based on the platform, the size of the site and how many small changes you expect to send. After a free 30-minute call you get the plan and price in writing. No long contracts.
What is included each month?
Updates tested on staging, off-site backups, uptime and security monitoring, checks of speed, links, forms and checkout, small content changes up to your plan's limit, and a short report. Larger projects are scoped separately.
What happens if the site goes down?
Monitoring alerts us. You contact Terrence directly, not a ticket queue. We restore from backup if needed, find the cause and fix it, then tell you what happened and what changed so it does not repeat.
Can you maintain a site you did not build?
Yes. Most of the sites we maintain were built by someone else. We start with an onboarding audit of the theme, plugins and hosting, fix anything urgent and document the site so we know it as well as the original developer did.
Do I have to be on a plan to get help?
No. One-off fixes are scoped and priced like any other project. A plan makes sense when you want someone watching the site every month and a direct line when something breaks.
Related services.
Ready when you are.
Tell us who built your site and what broke last. We'll quote a plan in writing.