website hosting and maintenance
Website hosting and maintenance for the site you already have
Keep the site you have, and let my team do the weekly updates and backups for it.
- Weekly updates to core, plugins, theme or dependencies, after a backup
- Backups, with restores tested
- Monitoring of uptime, logins and file changes
- Exposed usernames, XML-RPC and the other items the WordPress site check flags, fixed
- A monthly speed check, with images and caching kept in shape
- Small fixes, content changes and a monthly report
Try it
A week on the plan — and the update that goes wrong.
Every Monday: back up first, update on a copy, check, then go live. Press the button to see why the order matters.
- Monbackup → updates on staging → checks
- Tuewatch
- Weduptime + login watch (every day)
- Thuwatch
- Fribackup restore test
- Satwatch
- Sunmonthly report, first Sunday
Live site
yourbusiness.com · 200 OK
Staging copy
all green · backup taken before this week's updates
care.log
all green · backup taken before this week's updates
The plan keeps its own backups away from the host, and restores one on a schedule to prove the copies work.
Overview
Inside website hosting and maintenance
Website hosting and maintenance from my team looks after a WordPress or Next.js site you already have. The WordPress core, plugins and theme are kept current, or a Next.js site's dependencies, and I check the pages after each round. Uptime, logins and file changes are watched, and an alert reaches a person, so a break-in gets noticed the same day.
Your site's open doors show up in the free WordPress site check. Exposed usernames and XML-RPC are two of the things it looks for. On the plan, I close those doors and keep them closed.
I run it as a WordPress maintenance plan or as Next.js hosting and maintenance. The weekly routine doesn't change. Only the update list does.
- Plugins and user accounts that shouldn't be there, removed at the start
- Watching uptime, logins and file changes, with alerts that reach a person
- Hosting set up with caching, SSL that renews itself, and security headers
- Small content changes and fixes inside the plan
- A monthly report on what was updated, what was caught and what comes next
What a scope from me looks like
The hosting and maintenance plan, written down
Included
- Weekly updates to core, plugins, theme or dependencies, after a backup
- Backups, with restores tested
- Monitoring of uptime, logins and file changes
- Exposed usernames, XML-RPC and the other items the WordPress site check flags, fixed
- A monthly speed check, with images and caching kept in shape
- Small fixes, content changes and a monthly report
Phase two
- Moving the site to a new host
- New pages, features or integrations
- A speed pass on a site that has slowed down
- Content writing — quoted separately
Not doing
- A guaranteed reply time
A care plan gets a written scope, the same as a build. Anything outside it gets its own quote before it's done.
Small fixes and content edits are part of the monthly work, within a limit we agree at the start. A new feature is quoted on its own. The plan does need admin access to the site, because without it there is nothing to update or back up.
Process
Starting a plan on a site that already exists
A plan starts with an audit of the site as it stands. There are no wireframes and no design here. After the audit, the same weekly cycle simply repeats.
- 01
The call
You tell me the platform, the host, who built the site and what has gone wrong before.- You
- Share the platform, the host, and when the site was last updated.
- Get
- Whether the site goes straight onto a plan, or needs a rebuild first
- 02
The audit
I check the plugins, theme, hosting, security doors, backups and speed. The write-up separates what to fix first from what the plan keeps doing after that.- You
- Admin, hosting and registrar logins, plus the previous developer's handover if one exists.
- Get
- A written audit and a plan scope to sign
- 03
The clean-up
I work through the audit's fix list. The backups are set up, monitoring is switched on, and the hosting is configured.- You
- Approve removing the plugins and user accounts that shouldn't be there.
- Get
- A site that is current, backed up and watched
- 04
Restore test
I restore a backup to prove it works, and set off each alert to prove it reaches a person. You click through the site to confirm nothing broke.- You
- Check the pages your customers use most.
- Get
- A passed restore test and a passed alert test
- 05
The plan goes live
The weekly cycle begins. We settle what the monthly report shows, and the runbook is brought up to date.- You
- Sign off.
- Get
- The first monthly report and the runbook
- 06ongoing
Every week, every month
Your change requests go into the next week's round. Each month the report arrives with the speed number, and it flags any bigger job that's coming due.- You
- Send the changes you want and anything odd you notice.
- Get
- The monthly report
- The call
- The audit
- The clean-up
- Restore test
- The plan goes live
- Every week, every month
Why it matters
Why I keep your backups off the host
I keep every backup away from the server the site runs on. A copy stored on the same server goes down with it. When a server fails, or a break-in reaches the files, the copy you need is the one kept somewhere else.
I also restore a backup as a test, onto a spare copy of the site. That's the only way to know the file actually works.
Updates are the other half of the job. On WordPress, trouble tends to start when a plugin that hasn't been updated in a long time meets a newer PHP version. On Next.js, it's a dependency that has fallen several major versions behind.
Both show up on the spare copy first.
Who answers
Support is the whole team, not one person — reach us any time, and someone picks it up.
What you get
When something goes wrong on a plan
Three things go wrong on a site that is otherwise fine, and the plan has an answer for each. If the site is already broken today, website repair comes first.
- Break-in: the site restored from a clean copy, and the way in closed
- Bad update: rolled back on staging before anyone sees it
- Host failure: the site brought back up on another server
Client feedback
What these clients wrote afterwards
- ★★★★★
“This is the second website he has created for us. He is professional and communicative and delivers beautiful work quickly.”
- ★★★★★
“Very professional Team and well prepared. I will definitly hire him and the team again.”
- ★★★★★
“Sandipan was fantastic to work with. He was professional, responsive, and skilled. I will recommend him and most likely use his services again.”
Month to month
A month on the plan
Every week a backup is taken first, and then the updates go on. If an update breaks something, it is caught on the copy and held back while the live site carries on. At the end of the month you get a report of what was updated and what was held back. When you need something in between, message the team.
- 900+ projects
- since 2017
- 4.9★
- 400+ five-star reviews on Fiverr
- 9+ years
- building WordPress and Next.js sites
Support is the whole team, not one person — reach us any time, and someone picks it up.
“The freelancer demonstrated excellent problem-solving abilities, tackling challenges head-on and coming up with innovative solutions, maintains clear, concise, and prompt communication. Any questions or concerns I had were addressed quickly and professionally.”
Schedule a Meeting
Tell me where the site is hosted now and what worries you about it, and we'll see whether the plan fits.
A real office, real people
Led by me, built with my team — in Kolkata, India.
The team: three developers, a designer and three SEO specialists in the Kolkata, India office, plus around six people working remotely. Updates go in every week, after a backup. Support is the whole team, not one person — reach us any time, and someone picks it up.
Sandipan Das
You talk to me; I’m the one accountable for the work.
- Availability
- The team works on your schedule, in your time zone.
- Support
- Support is the whole team, not one person — reach us any time, and someone picks it up.
Pricing
Paying for the plan
What the plan covers each month is listed in the scope you sign. Bigger jobs, such as a host move or a new feature, are quoted separately, and the report tells you when one is due. Ranking work sits under SEO services.
The first month is the heavy one. A site that has gone a long time without updates needs a clean-up before the weekly routine can start, and that clean-up carries more work than the quiet weeks after it.
I also offer managed hosting for small business sites, so the host becomes one less account for you to watch.
Weighing it up
Care, maintenance, management or support. Which one fits?
Next step
Find out what needs doing first
Run your site through the free WordPress check, then book a call and bring the result. The clean-up list comes out of that conversation.
What do you actually do each month?
- Every week the site gets its round of updates, so a month holds four or five of them. Monitoring runs between rounds. Once a month you also get a speed check, the small changes you asked for, and a report listing every update and anything that was caught on the maintenance plan.
Do I need hosting and maintenance if my host already does backups?
- Yes. A backup at the host covers one part of looking after a site. The plan adds a tested restore, the weekly updates, the monitoring and a person who notices when something looks wrong.
What happens if my website gets hacked while it's on the plan?
- You'd hear about it the same day, because changed files or a burst of login attempts set off an alert that reaches the team. The site is restored from the last clean backup, the way in is closed, and you get a plain-language note on what happened and what changed.
Can you take over my site from my current host or my old developer?
- The takeover starts with an audit of what's on the current host, whoever built the site. If it would run better somewhere else, it moves, and the old copy keeps running until the new one has been checked. The DNS switch happens while you're on a call with me. A handover from the previous developer helps, but it isn't required.
Is there a contract?
- Yes, a written scope you sign. The plan's scope sets out what's included, what gets its own quote and what isn't covered, and each monthly report shows the work done against it.
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