Website maintenance services and care plans that keep it working
Managed hosting, uptime and security monitoring, updates, and monthly edits from $199/mo. One flat rate so your site stays fast, secure, and current without you thinking about it. You keep your code, your domain, and your freedom to leave.
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What does website maintenance cost, and what is included?
Website maintenance costs $199 per month for our Care Plan, which covers managed hosting, uptime and security-certificate monitoring, monthly platform and dependency updates, security patches, two hours of content edits, and a quarterly performance and SEO report. If you also want the marketing side handled, the Growth Engine plan runs $1,500 to $3,500 per month and adds content, local SEO, and Google Business Profile management on top.
The point of a care plan is not the feature list. It is that one team owns the boring, load-bearing work a website needs to keep earning: staying online, staying patched, staying fast. Left alone, a site does not fail loudly. It decays quietly, and the lost leads look like a slow month rather than a maintenance problem.
Everything here is month to month. There is no lock-in, no proprietary platform holding your site hostage, and no surprise invoice. You own your code, your domain, and your hosting account. If you leave, you walk away with all of it.
DIY vs a freelancer vs a care plan
Three honest ways to keep a website maintained. Each wins in some situation. Here is what you actually get with each.
| What you get | Do it yourselfOwner-run updates | Call a freelancerAd-hoc, hourly | Care PlanMaxx Effect Care Plan$199/mo, managed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $0 + your time | $75-150/hr, unpredictable | $199/mo flat |
| Who watches uptime | Nobody until it is down | Nobody between calls | Automated monitoring |
| Security patches | Whenever you remember | Only if you ask | Monthly, automatic |
| Content edits | You do them | Billed per hour, per request | 2 hrs/mo included, rolls over |
| Response time | As fast as you learn the fix | When they are free | Same business day |
| Performance reporting | None | None | Quarterly audit + SEO report |
| If something breaks at 9pm | Your problem | Voicemail | Monitored + fixed next morning |
The takeaway
Free until a missed security patch, a broken plugin, or a slow page quietly costs you leads.
Fine for one-off fixes, but nobody is watching the site between the calls you remember to make.
One flat monthly rate. Someone owns uptime, security, and edits so you never think about it.
Maxx Effect Care Plan
$199/mo, managed
Monthly cost
$199/mo flat
Who watches uptime
Automated monitoring
Security patches
Monthly, automatic
Content edits
2 hrs/mo included, rolls over
Response time
Same business day
Performance reporting
Quarterly audit + SEO report
If something breaks at 9pm
Monitored + fixed next morning
One flat monthly rate. Someone owns uptime, security, and edits so you never think about it.
Every month
What a care plan actually does each month
"Maintenance" is a vague word that hides a lot of quiet, necessary work. Here is what a Care Plan does on your site every month, in the order it happens, so you can see exactly what the flat rate buys.
Step 01: Watch and patch
Automated monitoring watches uptime and your security certificate around the clock. Every month we apply platform, framework, and dependency updates, so the security holes attackers scan for are closed before they matter. If the site goes down or throws an error, we know before your customers tell you, and we fix it the same business day.
Step 02: Keep it fast
Page weight creeps up over time as content is added. We keep an eye on Core Web Vitals, the load-speed metrics Google uses as a ranking signal, and tune images and assets so the site that launched at a 95+ speed score still scores 95+ a year later. A fast site is not a one-time achievement; it is a thing you have to defend.
Step 03: Make your edits
Two hours a month of content edits are included, and unused hours roll over up to six. New staff bio, seasonal banner, price change, a fresh service page: hand it off and it is done, usually the same week. You never wait for a freelancer to have a free afternoon, and you never get billed by surprise for a fifteen-minute change.
Step 04: Report what changed
Every quarter you get a plain-English report: uptime for the period, what we patched, current speed scores against the thresholds Google cares about, and any SEO issues worth addressing. No jargon dump, no vanity metrics. Just whether the site is healthy and what, if anything, is worth doing next.
None of this requires you to log in, learn a dashboard, or remember a renewal. That is the entire point. If you want the site not just maintained but actively grown, the same team runs SEO and local search marketing in Muskegon on top of the same foundation.
Not sure your current site is being maintained at all? Book a free 30-minute audit and we will send back its real speed, security, and uptime health.
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Two ways to keep your site healthy. Both month to month, both with no lock-in. Pick the one that matches how hands-off you want to be.
Maintenance
Keep the site online, secure, and up to date
Timeline: Month to month, cancel anytime
Ideal for: Any business that wants a hands-off, always-working site
- Managed hosting on Vercel
- Uptime + security-certificate monitoring
- 2 hours/month of content edits (rolls over up to 6)
- Monthly platform + dependency updates
- Same-business-day incident response
- Quarterly performance + SEO report
Growth Engine
Maintenance plus the marketing work that grows traffic
Timeline: 3-month minimum, then month to month
Ideal for: Owners who want the site maintained and actively marketed
- Everything in the Care Plan
- 2-4 blog posts per month (Google + AI search)
- Local SEO + directory citation building
- Google Business Profile posts + review management
- Monthly strategy call + KPI dashboard
- Google Ads management (ad spend separate)
Frequently Asked Questions
Website maintenance at Maxx Effect costs $199 per month for a Care Plan: managed hosting, uptime and security monitoring, monthly platform updates, two hours of content edits (which roll over up to six), same-business-day incident response, and a quarterly performance report. If you also want ongoing marketing, the Growth Engine plan runs $1,500-$3,500 per month and includes everything in the Care Plan plus content, local SEO, and Google Business Profile work. Every price is published, so you know the number before you email us.
A website care plan is a flat monthly subscription that keeps your site online, secure, fast, and current so you never have to think about it. Ours covers managed hosting, uptime and security-certificate monitoring, monthly software and dependency updates, security patches, two hours of content edits per month, and a quarterly performance and SEO review. It replaces the scramble of chasing a freelancer every time something breaks with one predictable bill and one team that already knows your site.
If your site runs your business, yes. Software dependencies get security updates, browsers change, forms silently break, images bloat load times, and Google keeps moving the performance goalposts. A site left untouched for a year is slower, less secure, and quietly ranking lower than it did at launch. Monthly maintenance is the difference between a site that keeps earning and one that decays. If your site is a brochure you never touch, a care plan may be optional, and we will tell you that honestly.
Three things, slowly. Security: unpatched dependencies become the vulnerabilities attackers scan for. Speed: page weight creeps up and Core Web Vitals scores fall, which Google uses as a ranking signal. Trust: an expired security certificate throws a browser warning that scares off visitors. None of these announce themselves. They show up as a gradual decline in leads that most owners blame on the market rather than the site.
Yes. You own the site and the code, and content lives in simple files you can edit. The Care Plan includes two hours a month of edits we handle for you when you would rather hand them off, and those hours roll over up to six months. Most owners use them for seasonal updates, new staff bios, price changes, and the occasional new page. Anything beyond the included hours is quoted up front, never billed by surprise.
Not necessarily. We take on maintenance for sites we did not build after a short technical review, as long as the site is on a stack we can safely support. If your current site is on a platform that makes reliable maintenance impractical, we will say so and show you what a rebuild would cost instead of quietly billing you to maintain something fragile.
The Care Plan is month to month with no lock-in. Cancel anytime and you keep everything: your code, your domain, your hosting account, and your content all stay in your name. The Growth Engine plan asks for a three-month minimum because SEO and content need time to compound, then it also goes month to month.
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Book a free 30-minute audit. We send back a real speed, security, and uptime report on your current site, plus a straight answer on whether a care plan is worth it for you. No sales pitch.
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