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Website Maintenance for NZ Businesses

Updates, backups, security and monitoring — handled monthly, for a fixed price, with no lock-in.

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Most small business websites aren't attacked deliberately. They're found by automated scans looking for known, unpatched weaknesses. Maintenance is just not being one of the sites that got left behind.

Is something wrong right now?

Site down? Chrome warning visitors it's not secure? Sending spam? Redirecting somewhere it shouldn't? Send me the URL and what you're seeing. I'll tell you what's happened and what it takes to fix it — usually within a few hours.

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What's included

Every plan covers the same core work. The difference between tiers is how much of your time I'm on the hook for.

  • Platform, theme and plugin updates — applied to a staging copy first, never straight to your live site
  • Off-site backups, daily, retained 30 days, stored somewhere other than your server
  • A tested restore — I restore one before it's ever needed, not on the day you need it
  • Uptime monitoring that alerts a person, not a dashboard nobody reads
  • Security scanning and malware monitoring
  • SSL renewal and expiry monitoring
  • A monthly report of what was actually done

Plans

All prices NZD, excluding GST. Month to month — no contract, cancel anytime.

Essential

For brochure sites that don't change often.

$39/month

  • Monthly updates applied via staging
  • Daily off-site backups, 30-day retention
  • Uptime monitoring and SSL renewal
  • Security and malware scanning
  • Monthly report of work done
  • Content changes billed at $60/hour
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Standard

For business sites that change and matter.

$79/month

  • Everything in Essential
  • 1 hour of content changes included each month
  • Quarterly Core Web Vitals check
  • Response within 2 business days
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Priority

For sites taking bookings, orders or payments.

$149/month

  • Everything in Standard
  • 2 hours of content changes included each month
  • Response by the next business day
  • Staging environment maintained for testing changes
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What's not included

Saying this plainly is worth more than another feature bullet.

  • New features or pages beyond the included hours — quoted separately as small projects
  • Redesigns
  • SEO and content writing — that's growth spend, not maintenance
  • Paid plugin and theme licences — billed to you at cost
  • Recovery of a site that's already compromised — quoted separately once I've seen the damage

What the market charges, and what maintenance actually costs over a year, is broken down in annual website maintenance costs in NZ. If you're not sure you need a plan at all, that question has its own answer.

How it works

  1. 1

    Free health check

    Send me your URL. I'll tell you what's outdated, what's exposed, and whether you need a plan at all.

  2. 2

    Pick a tier, or don't

    If you don't need one, I'll say so.

  3. 3

    Access setup

    Hosting, CMS and domain stay in your name. I get access; you keep ownership.

  4. 4

    Monthly work and a report

    You see what was done, not just an invoice.

Why work with me

  • You deal with the developer, not an account manager relaying messages
  • Fixed monthly price agreed up front — no hourly meter, no surprise invoices
  • You own everything — code, domain, hosting, in your name from day one
  • No lock-in. If you leave, you take everything with you and I'll help with the handover

These plans cost less than most New Zealand agencies charge, and it's worth saying why rather than leaving you to guess. There's no agency overhead and no account manager — I work remotely from Pakistan with clients in New Zealand and Cyprus, so you're paying for the work rather than the layer above it. Ad-hoc changes outside a plan are $60/hour, against the $80–$150 NZ providers commonly publish.

The trade-off is real and I'd rather name it: I'm not down the road for a coffee, and there's a timezone gap. I keep a fixed overlap window each working day and everything is documented in writing, so nothing waits on catching me live.

I take a maximum of 4 maintenance clients, so each one gets actual attention rather than a scheduled script. When those are full, the honest answer is that you're on a waiting list.

When you don't need a maintenance plan

If your site is a small static or simply-built brochure site with no logins, no payments and no plugin sprawl, sitting on managed hosting that patches itself — you probably don't need to pay anyone monthly. Keep a backup, let the SSL auto-renew, and check it loads occasionally.

I'd rather tell you that than take $39 a month for watching a site that doesn't need watching.

The plan earns its money when: you're on WordPress or anything plugin-based · the site takes bookings or payments · you'd lose money from a day of downtime · or nobody currently knows whether backups exist.

FAQ

Questions before you commit

Most New Zealand plans run $50–$300 a month depending on whether real work is included or only monitoring, and ad-hoc developer work is commonly $80–$150 an hour. My plans are $39, $79 and $149 a month, NZD excluding GST. The full breakdown of what the market charges is in the annual website maintenance costs guide.

On WordPress or any plugin-based platform, effectively yes — outdated plugins are the leading route into a small business site. A simple static brochure site on managed hosting often doesn't need one, and I'll tell you if that's your situation rather than sell you a plan.

Yes. I audit what's there first and tell you honestly whether it's worth maintaining as it stands, or whether something needs fixing before a monthly plan makes sense.

Send me the details. Cleaning a compromised site properly means finding how they got in, not just restoring a backup — restore without closing the hole and it happens again. Recovery is quoted separately from a plan, after I've seen the damage.

No. Plans are month to month and you can cancel any time. Your domain, hosting and CMS stay in your name throughout, so leaving is straightforward and I'll help with the handover.

Yes, and it's where maintenance matters most — every plugin is third-party code that needs patching on someone else's schedule. I also maintain custom React and Node builds, and can advise on hosted platforms like Shopify or Squarespace.

No agency overhead and no account manager — you deal directly with the developer doing the work. I work remotely from Pakistan with clients in New Zealand and Cyprus, which lowers the cost and shortens the chain. The trade-off is that I'm not local for a coffee, and there's a timezone gap I cover with a fixed daily overlap and everything documented in writing.

Get a free health check

Send me your URL and I'll tell you what state your site is in — what's outdated, what's exposed, and what it'd take to make it safe. No charge, and no obligation to buy a plan.

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