A site that stays fast, patched and growing after launch.
A website maintenance plan covers the work a site needs after launch: hosting, software updates, backups, security and small edits. Ziwi runs it at $99 a month for hosting and maintenance, or $299 a month per location for Ziwi Care, which adds a new post every week and unlimited small edits.
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Where do businesses lose here?
Nothing announces itself. Plugins fall behind, a contact form stops sending, an old price sits there for eight months, and the only signal you get is a flat quarter.
Hosting in one place, a developer for edits, someone else for backups, and nobody who owns the outcome. When something breaks, the first hour goes to working out whose job it is.
A price changed, you added a service, a seasonal offer needs to go up. Those requests queue behind running the business until they are no longer worth making.
What a website maintenance plan actually covers
Why it matters: your website is where every marketing dollar lands. Ads, search results, review profiles and referrals all end on the same pages, so the site quietly taxes or multiplies all of it at once. An out-of-date plugin, a dead form or a page that takes six seconds on a phone does not send you a warning. It just costs you the bookings you never hear about.
Website maintenance is four separate jobs sold under one word. Hosting is where the site lives and how fast it answers. Updates are the WordPress core, theme and plugin patches that arrive most weeks and that break things when they are skipped for a year. Backups and security are the insurance: an off-site copy, uptime monitoring, and a way back after a bad plugin or a bad login. Edits are everything else: the price that changed, the service you added, the team photo that is two people out of date.
Ziwi sells that as two rungs and publishes both. Hosting and maintenance is $99 a month and keeps the site online, patched, backed up and monitored, with the occasional small edit. Ziwi Care is $299 a month per location and adds the growth half: a new post every week across blog and social, unlimited small edits with most live inside 24 hours, and an analytics dashboard. The first month of Ziwi Care is free and the rate is locked for 12 months, and both plans are month to month.
- Hosting and maintenance, $99
- The site stays online, patched, backed up and monitored, with the occasional small edit. The right plan for a site that is finished and rarely changes.
- Ziwi Care, $299 per location
- Adds a new post every week, unlimited small edits and an analytics dashboard, with the first month free. The right plan for a site that is supposed to keep earning.
- The WordPress part specifically
- Ziwi builds on WordPress, so the plan covers core, theme and plugin updates, PHP versions, and the login surface that gets attacked whether or not anyone is watching it.
What each rung costs against the market rates we could source is broken out on the website maintenance cost page. That page owns the price question; this one is the service itself.
Everything Ziwi Care includes
Run it standalone or wired into a plan. Either way, the accounts and the data are yours.
Not a generic shared box. Hosting tuned for WordPress with uptime monitoring, so an outage is usually our problem before it is your phone call.
Applied and checked, not clicked blindly. Skipped updates are the most common reason a working site stops working.
Off-site backups plus a way back if an update, a plugin or a compromised login takes the site down.
Page speed checked against Google's Core Web Vitals, because a slow site loses the click and the ranking at the same time.
A new price, a new service, a seasonal offer, a staff change. Most go live inside 24 hours.
One post a week on Ziwi Care, blog plus social, so the site keeps adding pages that can rank instead of standing still at launch.
Traffic, calls and forms in one place, so the site's contribution is measured instead of assumed.
Hosting, updates, backups, edits and content on a single line item, month to month.
What happens in your first 30 days?
The first month is a cleanup, not an onboarding form. We take the site as it is, fix what is broken, then start adding to it.
The site moves onto managed hosting with its URLs intact, backups start, and we record the starting speed and security state.
Core, theme and plugin updates are brought current, and broken links and dead forms are found and fixed.
The list of changes you have been meaning to make for a year gets worked through. Most edits go live inside 24 hours.
The weekly post starts on Ziwi Care, and the analytics dashboard goes live with your first report.
Hosting and maintenance is $99 a month: managed hosting, software updates, backups, security monitoring and the occasional small edit. Ziwi Care is $299 a month per location and adds a new post every week, unlimited small edits with most live inside 24 hours, and an analytics dashboard, with the first month free and the rate locked for 12 months. Both are month to month with 30 days notice, and you own the site either way.
Ziwi, a freelance developer, or doing it yourself?
| Compared on | Freelance developer | DIY | Ziwi |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you pay | Hourly, and usually only once something is already broken | A host bill plus your evenings | $99 a month, or $299 with content and unlimited edits |
| Updates | When you ask | When you remember | Applied and checked every month |
| Backups and security | Depends who set it up | Whatever the host happens to include | Off-site backups, monitoring, and a way back |
| Small edits | Billed per request, done in a few days | You in the editor at 11 PM | Unlimited on Ziwi Care, most live in 24 hours |
| New content | Not included | Rarely happens | A new post every week on Ziwi Care |
| Commitment | Availability varies month to month | n/a | Month to month, first month of Care free |
The $99 plan keeps a site safe, it does not make it grow, and we would rather say that than sell the $299 plan to a site with nothing new to publish. See published pricing.
Frequently asked questions
Anything this page does not answer, ask on the call. Book a discovery call and keep the plan either way.
Ziwi publishes two rungs: $99 a month for hosting and maintenance, and $299 a month per location for Ziwi Care, which adds a new post every week and unlimited small edits with the first month free. Agency and freelance plans vary widely, and the market comparison sits on the website maintenance cost page.
Four things at $99 a month: managed hosting, WordPress core, theme and plugin updates, off-site backups with security monitoring, and small edits. Ziwi Care at $299 a month adds a weekly post, unlimited small edits and an analytics dashboard. A brand new page is a build rather than an edit, and it is $149 one time.
Yes, for the updates alone: WordPress core, theme and plugin patches ship most weeks, and a site left alone for 12 months is usually a site that has been broken into or simply broken. The $99 plan exists for exactly that case, and it deliberately does not include content, because that site does not need any.
Anything that takes under about 30 minutes: a price, a phone number, hours, a service added to a list, a staff photo, a seasonal banner. Those are unlimited on Ziwi Care at $299 a month and most go live within 24 hours. A new page is a build, priced at $149 one time.
Yes, though the $99 plan already includes hosting, so most sites move. If you stay where you are, we maintain the site there. If you move, the migration is handled for you in week 1 and the site keeps its URLs, which is the part that protects the rankings you already have.
No, both plans are month to month with 30 days notice, and the Ziwi Care rate is locked for 12 months while you stay on it. You own the domain, the hosting account and the files, so if you ever leave, the site leaves with you.
Pair it with
Maintenance keeps a site alive; the growth comes from what is published on it, so Ziwi Care sits next to local SEO and the builds on websites and landing pages, with the calls and forms it produces measured by call tracking and reporting. Book a discovery call.
Websites & Landing Pages
Most business websites are brochures with a phone number. Ours are booking machines: a page per offer, tracked end to end, and 100% yours from day one.
SEO & Local Search
When someone in your market searches for what you sell, you are either at the top or you are invisible. We put you there, and prove which calls it produced.
Call Tracking & Reporting
Which ad produced your last booked customer? If your agency cannot answer that, they are guessing with your money. We wire it so the answer is on a dashboard.