What does website maintenance cost per month?
Effective and last updated: September 3, 2026
$72 a month for updates, weekly offsite backups, uptime monitoring and up to an hour of content edits.
The honest version of this service is insurance plus a small errand allowance. Software and plugins get updated and checked, backups you can actually restore from are taken weekly and held offsite, uptime is monitored so a fix starts before you notice, and an hour a month of content edits is included because the alternative is a fifty-dollar invoice for changing a phone number.
What people ask
- Is there a contract? No. It is billed monthly and cancels any time, with no notice period.
- What is not included? Anything bigger than an hour of edits, which is quoted separately before any work starts. Nothing runs up a bill without you seeing the number first.
- Do I need it? If somebody else already updates the site, no. If nobody does, the first thing that breaks usually costs more than a year of this.
What the price includes
- Software and plugin updates, applied and checked
- Weekly offsite backups you can actually restore from
- Uptime monitoring, and we start fixing before you notice
- Up to one hour of content edits a month
- Email support with a one-business-day response
Turnaround: Starts the day you sign up. Cancel any time, no notice period.
Billed monthly. Bigger changes are quoted separately before any work starts.
What this costs elsewhere
The going rate we measured for this work is $90/month. Ours is $72/month, so you keep $18/month. Every price on this site is published rather than quoted after a discovery call, and it is the same number for everybody.
Not sure which of these you need?
The free consultation line is not published yet — we would rather show you nothing than a number that rings nowhere. Email support@theconsultline.com in the meantime and a person answers, or run the free website check and call with the results in front of you.