Do you need a website maintenance plan?
What happens without one, what a plan actually covers, and how to decide. Short answer: for most small business sites it’s optional.
Short answer: for most small business websites, a maintenance plan is optional. Your site keeps working without one. A plan is worth it when you change content often or want someone keeping an eye on things.
What happens if you don’t have a plan?
Nothing breaks. Pixel Maker builds most websites as fast static pages hosted on Cloudflare. There’s no server software or plugins to update, so a site can run for years untouched.
When you do need a change, such as new prices, a new project or a new photo, you ask for it and pay for the time it takes.
What a plan covers
- Monitoring: you’re told if the site goes down, before your customers notice.
- Backups: a copy of the site is kept every month.
- Small edits: text, prices, photos and opening hours updated for you.
- Reports (Growth plan): how many people visited and how they found you.
Your three options
| Option | Cost | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| No plan, pay as you go | from $30 / hour | Sites that change a few times a year |
| Care | from $29 / month | Peace of mind: monitoring, backups and small monthly edits |
| Growth | from $79 / month | Businesses updating products, prices or projects every month |
You probably don’t need a plan if…
- Your content changes a few times a year or less.
- You’re comfortable sending an email when something needs updating.
A plan is worth it if…
- You add products, prices or projects every month.
- The website brings in a lot of your enquiries, so downtime would cost you.
- You’d rather not think about the website at all.
Custom systems are different
Systems with logins and a database, like bookings or stock management, do need regular care: security updates, database backups and checks. Those need System Care (from $99 / month).
The free month
Every Pixel Maker launch includes one free month of Care. Before it ends you get a summary of what was done, and you decide whether to continue. Nothing renews automatically.