Small Business
What Website Maintenance Should Actually Include
How to tell a real website maintenance plan from a monthly fee for nothing: updates, backups, uptime checks, security patching and content edits.
Trustoby Designs TeamDecember 2, 2025 2 min read
The non-negotiables
Software updates applied on staging first, daily offsite backups, uptime monitoring with alerts, security scanning and an SSL check. If a plan lacks these, it is hosting with extra steps.
The valuable extras
A monthly allocation of content edits, a quarterly performance report and a named person who answers when something breaks.
Fair pricing
For a small business site, expect $79 to $250 per month depending on edit allocation and response times. Contracts should be month to month.
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