Website maintenance is ongoing care after launch — not a one-off “fix”, but preventing failures, updates, monitoring, and support. A site without maintenance ages like a car without service: slower, vulnerable to attacks, with errors after updates.
A good maintenance package gives peace of mind — someone reacts to problems before you or your customers notice. Below is the full list of what standard maintenance should include.
Regular WordPress / CMS, theme, and plugin updates — tested on staging before production. Updates close security holes and maintain PHP compatibility. Random “update everything at once” without backup is a quick path to a white screen.
In my packages updates are planned, documented, and verified — not blind automatic updates.
Maintenance should include automatic backups (files + database), off-site storage, retention, and periodic restore tests. In case of failure — fast restore, not a week of rebuilding.
Backup is a maintenance element you do not notice — until you need it.
Malware scanning, firewall, brute force blocking, uptime monitoring (alert when site is down), PHP error logs, SSL and certificate verification. After an attack — isolation, cleanup, and hardening procedures.
Maintenance is not just “updates” — it is the full security ecosystem of the site and customer data (GDPR).
Periodic speed review (Core Web Vitals), cache, database (optimization, autoload), image compression, lazy load. A site that slows every year loses Google rankings and Ads conversion.
In maintenance packages I do performance reviews and small optimizations without a separate invoice for every detail.
The package should clearly define: how many hours of small changes per month (text, image, banner), incident response time (SLA), contact channel (email, phone), report of work done.
Avoid contracts where “maintenance = updates only” with no support for problems — that is not full maintenance.
Standard maintenance is not: design from scratch, major new features, marketing copywriting, running Ads campaigns, full content SEO. Those are separate projects — maintenance keeps what works and evolves in a small scope.
Package boundaries should be in the contract — you avoid disputes about “is this included in maintenance?”.
I offer maintenance packages for WordPress sites, WooCommerce stores, PrestaShop, and Joomla — updates, backups, monitoring, security, support. Flexible plans matched to site size.
Contact me — describe your site and I will propose maintenance scope and a transparent monthly rate. Over 10 years maintaining projects for companies in Poland and Europe.
