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WordPress does not fail suddenly. It is neglected gradually.

WordPress maintenance keeps a site secure and current: core, theme and plugin updates applied on staging and tested before they go live, daily off-site backups, uptime monitoring, and a monthly report of what changed.

See maintenance plans See how it works
  • Updates tested on staging
  • Daily off-site backups
  • Monthly report

“It was fine last year” is how most sites get compromised.

A WordPress site is core, a theme and a stack of plugins, each updated by someone else on their own schedule. Leave it alone for a year and you have known vulnerabilities, an untested backup and a site that cannot be updated without something breaking.

The pattern is always the same.

  • Updates clicked directly on the live site, which is how a site goes down mid-morning.
  • Backups that exist on the same server as the site, so a compromise takes both.
  • A restore nobody has ever tested, which is a backup in name only.
  • Plugins abandoned by their authors, still running and still exposed.
  • Nobody watching, so the first sign of trouble is a customer calling.

What happens each month

The same sequence, whether or not anything interesting happened.

  1. Staging first

    Core, theme and plugin updates applied to a copy of the site, never directly to the live one.

    Breakage happens where it cannot hurt.

  2. Test

    Key pages, forms and checkout exercised after updating, because a plugin update that breaks the contact form is the expensive kind.

    Updates that are verified.

  3. Deploy

    Changes moved to the live site in a quiet window, with a tested restore point ready.

    A way back.

  4. Back up and monitor

    Daily off-site backups, uptime checks, and malware scanning running continuously.

    Problems found early.

  5. Report

    What was updated, what was found, what we fixed, and what we recommend. Plain language.

    You know the state of your site.

What the plans cover

Published prices, no bundled hours nobody tracks.

Essential
KES 8,000

Updates, backups and monitoring for a standard business site.

Growth
KES 25,000

Adds a monthly change allowance and priority response.

Technical
From KES 60,000

For stores and sites where downtime costs money by the hour.

Monthly, exclusive of VAT. Full detail on the maintenance pricing page.

  • Updates, properly

    Staged, tested and deployed, rather than clicked on a live site and hoped for.

    No surprise outages.

  • Backups that restore

    Off-site, daily, and periodically restored to prove they work.

    Tested, not assumed.

  • Security monitoring

    Scanning and uptime checks, with a response path when something is found.

    Found before customers find it.

  • A change allowance

    The small edits every business needs, included rather than quoted each time.

    No invoice for ten minutes.

What you get

All plans are published on the maintenance pricing page.

  • Staged updates

    Never on the live site.

    • Core, theme and plugins
    • Tested after every update
    • Rolled back cleanly if needed

  • Backups

    Off-site and tested.

    • Daily, retained to an agreed schedule
    • Stored away from the server
    • Restores tested, not assumed

  • Monitoring

    We find out first.

    • Uptime checks
    • Malware scanning
    • SSL and domain expiry watched

  • A monthly report

    What changed and what we found.

    • Updates applied
    • Issues and fixes
    • Recommendations for next month

Questions clients ask before they commit

  • Do you maintain sites you did not build?

    Yes. We start with a takeover audit at KES 45,000 to see what we are inheriting, then the site moves onto a plan. Taking over a site blind is unfair to everyone.

  • What if the site breaks after an update?

    That is what staging exists to prevent. If something does get through, there is a tested restore point and we roll back, then work out what caused it before trying again.

  • Is maintenance the same as hosting?

    No. Hosting keeps the server running. Maintenance keeps the software on it secure, current and working. You need both, and they are separate costs.

  • Can we just update it ourselves?

    You can, and plenty of businesses do successfully. The parts that get skipped are staging, testing restores and watching for compromise, which are exactly the parts that matter when something goes wrong.

Which situation is yours?

Site is fine

Nothing is wrong and you want it to stay that way.

A plan starts this month and the first report arrives next.

See plans
Site is neglected

Nobody has touched it in a year or more.

A takeover audit first, so we both know what we are dealing with.

Get an audit

Maintenance is insurance you can see working. Nobody values it until the month they need the backup.

Haryes KebeyaFounder, Haryes Web Developers