Maintenance Guide
How much does website maintenance cost?
Professional website maintenance at TK WebHosts starts from $99 per month for core software updates, daily off-site backups, and uptime and security monitoring. A Growth plan with a content update allowance, performance tuning, and priority support starts from $249 per month, and multi-site or custom service levels are quoted to scope.
Last reviewed: August 21, 2026 · Part of our website maintenance services resources
What each level of maintenance includes
Price differences between maintenance plans come down to how much work lands on the team each month — not to different levels of care on the basics. Updates, backups, and monitoring are the floor, never an upgrade.
Essentials — from $99/month
Core software updates, daily off-site backups, and uptime and security monitoring. The prevention layer every live site needs, whoever built it.
Growth — from $249/month
Everything in Essentials, plus a content update allowance, performance tuning, and priority support. For sites that change often and feed a sales pipeline.
Enterprise — quoted to scope
Multi-site portfolios, custom service levels, and dedicated technical support, priced against the actual estate rather than a tier.
What moves the price up or down
The platform and what is running on it matter most: an online store with payment, inventory, and marketing integrations carries more update surface and more risk per update than a brochure site, so it costs more to maintain well.
The other drivers are volume and expectations: how many content changes you send each month, how much performance work the site needs, how many sites are covered, and what response commitments you need. What should not change with price is the method — updates tested on a staging copy first, backups that restore, and a written record of what was done.
Never in the monthly fee
- Project work — new pages, redesigns, new features
- Migrations between hosts or platforms
- Custom development, quoted separately in writing
- Third-party costs — hosting upgrades, premium plugins, domains — passed through at cost and listed transparently
The real comparison: maintenance vs. recovery
The alternative to a maintenance fee is not zero cost — it is deferred cost. Unmaintained sites fail as emergencies: an outage or security incident, discovered late, with no tested backup to fall back on. When Sim Contracts came to us their website had been down for some time and other technicians could not find the cause; we had the business back online in under a week. Prevention is cheaper, and it is also calmer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is $99 per month enough for a small business website?
For most brochure-style business sites, yes. The Essentials plan covers core software updates, daily off-site backups, and uptime and security monitoring — the work that prevents the expensive failures. Sites that need regular content changes, performance tuning, or priority support fit the Growth plan at $249 per month.
Can I maintain my website myself?
Technically, yes — the tasks are documented everywhere. The real cost is discipline: updates need testing before they reach the live site, backups need to exist and restore before you need them, and monitoring has to run between the update windows. Most owners who start doing this themselves stop after the first busy month, which is exactly when sites drift into trouble.
Is hosting included in website maintenance?
No — they are separate services. We maintain your site wherever it is currently hosted, so you do not need to switch. If you would like us to also host it, we can plan the migration as part of onboarding and keep downtime to a minimum.
What happens if I skip maintenance?
Nothing, at first — which is why it gets skipped. Over months, plugins drift out of date, security gaps widen, performance degrades, and backups quietly stop working. The bill arrives as an emergency: a hacked or broken site, no working backup, and a recovery project that costs far more than the maintenance would have.
Is there a minimum contract?
No long-term commitment required. We routinely start clients on a single plan and grow from there.
Get an exact number for your site.
Tell us what you run and we’ll reply with the right maintenance recommendation and a written quote within 24 hours — including anything that should be fixed before a plan starts.
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