Stop overpaying for simple website changes. Choose a webmaster plan that keeps your site fast, secure, and easy to update, without locking you into expensive retainers or forcing you to wrestle with WordPress alone.
You shouldn’t have to choose between paying a webmaster too much for tiny edits and wasting your own time hunting through WordPress menus. Most people can change a paragraph or swap an image. It is the jobs that look simple that cost you the afternoon: a broken link, a menu that will not update, a layout that shifted and will not go back.
These plans are built for business owners who want control over their content but also want a skilled webmaster in their corner for everything else. The Complete plan is $599 per year, not per month. It covers safe updates to PHP, WordPress, themes, and plugins, full-site backups stored off-server, and done-for-you edits whenever you need them.
Most standard small-business sites qualify at this price, though very high-maintenance or constantly changing sites may require a custom quote. Email can be added as an extra service and is not included in the base prices.
Compare the three plans
| Essential | Protected | Complete | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $249/year | $549/year | $599/year |
| Hosting and offsite backups | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 |
| Uptime monitoring | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 |
| PHP, WordPress, theme, and plugin updates | 🔴 | 🟢 | 🟢 |
| Security hardening and malware scans | 🔴 | 🟢 | 🟢 |
| Performance checks and speed tuning | 🔴 | 🟢 | 🟢 |
| Daily and monthly backups on a separate AWS server | 🔴 | 🟢 | 🟢 |
| Content edits done for you | 🔴 | 🔴 | 🟢 |
| Fixes for broken links, buttons, and menus | 🔴 | 🔴 | 🟢 |
| Priority response | 🔴 | 🔴 | 🟢 |
| Best for | A site that only needs a reliable home | You are happy to edit your own content | You would rather send changes by email |
Essential
- Hosting only: $249/year
- Fast, reliable hosting
- One day/one month automated offsite server-level backups included!
- Basic uptime monitoring
- Note: Updates, webmaster help, or email not included
Email hosting and configuration are available as an optional add-on to any plan, priced separately based on your needs. We recommend Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 if email is important to your business.
Protected
For most small businesses that want a stable, secure site without touching the technical stuff.
- Everything in Essential
- Safe updates to PHP, WordPress core, themes, and plugins
- Security hardening and malware scans
- Performance checks and basic speed tuning
- Daily and monthly full-site backups are stored on a separate AWS server
- Friendly support for “why is this broken?” technical issues
$549/year or $54/month
Ideal if you’re happy to edit your own content but never want to worry about updates, breakage, or having a recent backup when something goes wrong.
Complete
For businesses that want to stay out of WordPress almost entirely and send changes by email.
- Everything in Protected
- Done-for-you content edits within your existing layout
- Quick fixes for broken links, buttons, and simple layout issues
- Priority response for most requests
- Occasional review of your site for issues and easy improvements
$599/year or $59/month
The webmaster service on its own is $299 a year. Complete adds it to Protected for $50.
Best if you’re tired of logging into WordPress at all and want a low-cost, on-call webmaster without surprise invoices.
Qualification and limitations
These prices apply to most typical small-business websites that only need typical edits and routine maintenance. Sites that require frequent large content changes, complex custom functionality, or unusually high support levels may be quoted separately or may not qualify for these flat yearly prices, so that they receive the level of attention they require.
Email hosting and advanced email configuration are not included in the hosting, maintenance, or webmaster prices. Email can be added as an optional, separately priced service, with pricing based on the number of accounts, storage, and complexity of setup or migration required.