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Ziwi Care: A Website Maintenance Plan That Keeps Your Site Growing
A website maintenance plan is an ongoing service that keeps a live site secure, fast, updated and current after launch. Ziwi Care covers managed hosting, security patches, backups, unlimited small edits, a new post every week and an analytics dashboard for $299 a month per location. The lighter hosting-only plan is $99. Both are on the full pricing page, and the website maintenance cost guide shows what the wider market charges.
The plain answer
What is a website maintenance plan, and why does a site need one?
A website maintenance service keeps a live site secure, updated, and current after it launches. At minimum that means hosting, software updates, and backups. Left unmaintained, a WordPress site accumulates outdated plugins, security gaps, broken forms, and content that ages out of relevance, and the first time most owners notice is when the site goes down or stops ranking. Website maintenance cost at Ziwi is $99 a month for the essentials or $299 for the full WordPress website maintenance service, per location.
The gap most owners hit is not the hosting bill, it is the small stuff: a price that changed, a new service to add, a seasonal promotion, a blog post that would have captured search traffic. Those never get done when they compete with running the business, so the site slowly falls behind. Ziwi Care is built to close that gap.
What is included
What Ziwi Care includes
Every Ziwi Care plan includes the following, billed at $299 per month per location. That is managed hosting, a content plan, unlimited small edits, and reporting in one line item, rather than four vendors and four bills.
A new post every week
A blog post written to drive traffic back to your site, shared to your Google Business Profile and Facebook. The content engine that keeps the site fresh for search.
Unlimited small edits
Price updates, hours, photo swaps, seasonal changes, team updates: the running list every site accumulates, most live within 24 hours.
Analytics dashboard
Behavior insights, landing-page reporting, and traffic reporting, so you can see what the site is actually doing instead of guessing.
Which plan fits
Which plan fits: the three ways to run your site
Not every business needs the content and reporting layer. If you want the site kept secure and online with the occasional small edit, and nothing more, maintenance and hosting covers that. If you want the site to keep growing, with monthly content and a dashboard to show for it, Ziwi Care is the plan built for that. Both plans are optional: you own your website and can host it anywhere.
| Feature | Host it yourself | Maintenance & hosting | Ziwi Care |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0/mo to Ziwi | $99 per month | $299 per month, per location |
| Managed hosting, security, backups | You handle it | Yes | Yes |
| Software updates | You handle it | Yes | Yes |
| Website edits | You handle it | Small edits included | Unlimited small edits, most live in 24 hours |
| Monthly content | No | No | A new post every week, blog plus social |
| Analytics dashboard | No | No | Yes |
| First month free | Not applicable | Yes | Yes |
| Commitment | None | Month-to-month | Month-to-month, price locked 12 months |
The terms
The terms, published in full
We publish the plan terms the same way we publish prices, so there are no surprises after you sign up:
First month free
$0 is due today with your card on file, then $299 per month billed monthly starting in month two.
Priced per location
The $299 rate is per business location, so a multi-location business scales the plan to match.
Small edits, defined simply
Text, prices, hours, photos, team changes: unlimited, no counting hours. Bigger jobs, like a brand-new page or a redesign, get a simple quote first, always approved by you.
Month-to-month, price locked
Cancel with a 30-day notice, and your price is locked for 12 months. No long contract, no annual lock-in, and no rate hike mid-year.
The hosting
How much does website hosting cost for a small business?
Managed WordPress hosting for a small business is $99 a month at Ziwi, and that includes security patches, plugin updates, uptime monitoring and backups on infrastructure tuned for WordPress, not a generic shared host where a slow server drags down your page speed and your rankings with it. Ziwi Care at $299 includes the same hosting plus weekly content and edits. Move the site elsewhere any time; nothing holds it hostage.
Who it is for
Who Ziwi Care is for
Ziwi Care fits a small business that has a website worth maintaining and wants it to keep earning: a local service business, a practice, a shop, or a firm that would rather pay one predictable monthly fee than chase a web person every time something needs to change. If you are still deciding on the site itself, start with how the website builds work, or small business website design for what a build includes. Starting a plan can also make the build itself $0: see the free website offer. If you want traffic driven to the site as well as the site maintained, pair Ziwi Care with small business marketing.
Speed
Does Ziwi Care make my website faster?
Yes, mostly by keeping it that way. Website speed and Core Web Vitals slip when plugins age, images pile up unoptimized and a shared server gets crowded. Ziwi Care keeps the software current, hosts the site on infrastructure tuned for WordPress, and treats a slow page as something you ask us to fix rather than something you diagnose yourself, so the site stays fast on a phone, where most local searches happen.
Questions
What else do people ask about website maintenance?
How much does website maintenance cost?
$299 a month per location for Ziwi Care, or $99 a month for maintenance and hosting only. Both are month to month with a 30-day notice, the first month is free, and neither is required: you own the site and can host it anywhere. Every number is on the full pricing page.
What does website maintenance actually include?
At $99: managed hosting, software updates and security patches, backups, and small edits. At $299, Ziwi Care adds a new post every week (a blog post plus a paired social post), unlimited small edits with most live within 24 hours, and a client analytics dashboard.
How much does website hosting cost for a small business?
$99 a month at Ziwi, and that is managed WordPress hosting with updates, backups and small edits, not a bare server. It is the lighter of the two plans; Ziwi Care at $299 includes the same hosting plus weekly content and the dashboard.
How fast are edits turned around?
Most small edits are live within 24 hours: text, prices, hours, photos, seasonal tweaks, team changes, with no hour counting. Bigger jobs, like a brand-new page or a redesign, get a simple quote first and a date with it, always approved by you before we do the work.
What happens if my site goes down?
Uptime monitoring flags it, we investigate, and if a plugin update or an attack caused it we roll the site back to the latest backup. There is no ticket to file and no extra charge; it is part of both the $99 and the $299 plans.
Can you take over hosting for a site you did not build?
Yes. Bring an existing WordPress site and we move it onto Ziwi hosting at $99 a month or Ziwi Care at $299, first month free. Sites on other platforms are scoped on the call, because moving them usually means a rebuild, and the free website offer often makes that rebuild $0.
Do I still own my website?
Yes. Every site Ziwi builds is fully owned by you, and the maintenance plans are a service on top of that, never a condition of keeping your site. You can host and maintain it elsewhere whenever you choose.
Published by Ziwi Marketing. Prices and plan terms published here are exact and match our internal pricing catalog; they are not promotional or subject to change after a sales call. Prices current as of September 2026.