What ongoing upkeep should actually cost you per month.
Fair monthly maintenance cost
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Anything far below this range is almost certainly an automated updater with no human attached — which you discover the day an update breaks your checkout.
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Website maintenance pricing is unusually opaque: quotes for the same work range from $20 to $500 a month, and the cheap end is often an automated updater with nobody behind it. This works out what your site genuinely needs.
The number below is what the work is worth, not what we charge. Use it to sanity-check any quote you have — including ours.
Because there is far more moving. WordPress core, the theme, and every plugin update on independent schedules, and any of them can conflict. A static site has no database to compromise and no plugins to update, so there is genuinely less to go wrong.
Yes, if you will actually do it. The failure mode is not incapability, it is forgetting — updates get skipped for four months, then a known vulnerability gets exploited. If you will genuinely spend an hour a month on it, self-managing is a reasonable choice.
Updates tested on a staging copy before going live, daily off-site backups with tested restores, uptime monitoring, and security scanning. A plan missing staging-tested updates is the one that eventually takes your site down.
It should not be, and bundling is often a way to hide margin and make leaving harder. Hosting typically runs $10–$50 a month for a business site and should be in your own name.
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