Insights · November 2026 · By Chris Moss

Can you maintain and update my website?

What maintaining a WordPress website actually involves, our three care plans from £25 a month, and whether we can look after a site we did not build.

Yes. We look after over ninety websites on our own UK hosting, including sites we didn’t build, as long as they run on WordPress. Care plans start at £25 a month, month to month, and your site stays yours if you leave.

What “maintaining” a website actually means

A WordPress website isn’t finished when it goes live. Every month it needs:

  • Updates to WordPress and its plugins, tested so nothing breaks. Out-of-date plugins are the most common way small-business sites get hacked.
  • Backups, kept somewhere other than the website, so it can be put back in minutes.
  • Monitoring, so someone knows the site is down before your customers do.
  • Security: a firewall, malware scanning and protected logins.

Most owners don’t do any of this until something goes wrong, which is the expensive time to start.

Our three plans

Plan Per month What it covers
Care £25 UK hosting, updates, daily backups, uptime monitoring, email support
Care+ £75 All of Care, plus security testing, an hour of changes a month, a quarterly review and local SEO upkeep
Growth £250 All of Care+, plus active SEO, new pages, three hours of changes and a monthly call

All month to month, no contract. Change plan or cancel any time.

What about changes and updates to the content?

On Care+ and Growth, changes are included: new prices, photos, a news post, a new team member. Just email them over. On Care, or for bigger jobs, we quote first in writing, at £65 an hour.

We didn’t build your site. Can you still look after it?

Usually, yes. We check it first, move it to our hosting with no downtime, and tell you plainly about anything that needs fixing before we take responsibility for it.

Do I have to use your hosting?

No. You can host anywhere and look after it yourself. Most clients stay because it’s simpler, and because when something goes wrong they speak to Chris, not a ticket queue.

See what’s included, or ring Chris on 07877 764540.

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Chris Moss, founder of CSM Web Design
Written by Chris Moss
Founder of CSM Web Design, Corby. More than twenty years of strategic and technical experience in WordPress, WooCommerce, hosting, security and performance, applied to small-business websites since 2009.
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