Website maintenance & care · UK
Looked after, without a contract holding you there.
A website is not a thing you finish. It is a thing you keep, and most of them quietly rot because nobody was responsible for them.
Werehouse Media's website maintenance services cover the ongoing work that keeps a site fast, current and trustworthy after launch: content and image changes, updates, backups, uptime and broken link monitoring, and small design tweaks as the business changes. It starts at £49 a month with no contract and no minimum term, and it is genuinely optional rather than a condition of the build. Every plan includes hosting.
Without a plan, hosting on its own is from £9 a month, or you can host anywhere you prefer. You own the domain, the code and every account outright, so the site keeps working whether or not the care plan continues. The honest test of whether it is worth it: if you would otherwise never get round to the changes, it pays for itself. If you are comfortable editing the site yourself, it probably does not.
What is website maintenance, and does a small business need it?
Website maintenance is the work that happens after launch to stop a site degrading: keeping content current, applying updates, taking backups, watching for outages and broken links, and making the small changes a business needs as it changes.
Whether you need it paid for is a fair question, and the answer is not automatically yes. If you are comfortable editing your own site and you will actually do it, you may not need a plan at all. Where care earns its money is with the business owner who knows the opening hours are wrong, has known for four months, and is not going to fix it this week either.
What is included
- Content and image changes. New prices, new photos, new staff, seasonal hours.
- Updates and security patching where the build has anything to update.
- Backups, so a bad change is never permanent.
- Uptime and broken link monitoring, so you hear about a problem from us rather than from a customer.
- Small design tweaks as the business shifts.
- A named person who answers. Not a ticket queue.
What is not included
New pages, new sections, a redesign, or a new feature. Those are projects, and they get quoted as projects. A care plan that quietly absorbs project work ends with a resentful supplier, and you can feel that in the work.
What it costs
| What | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Website care | From £49/month | Includes hosting. No contract, cancel any time |
| Hosting on its own | From £9/month | Without a plan. Optional: host it elsewhere if you prefer |
| Post-launch fixes | Included, 30 days | On every build, whether or not you take care |
There is deliberately no mandatory retainer. Plenty of studios make hosting or care a condition of the build; that is a way of making a site hard to leave rather than good to keep.
Why is hosting only £9 a month?
Because that is roughly what it costs to host a site like this properly, and marking it up four times would be charging you for the privilege of not moving. Hosting is a commodity. The value is in the build and in the people who answer when something breaks, not in the server.
What about editing the site yourself?
Some builds are delivered with a login so text and images can be updated without going through us, and blog articles published directly. It is not right for every project and it carries its own cost, so it is discussed at quote stage rather than assumed. Most small businesses making a handful of changes a year are better served by a care plan than by learning a system they will use twice.
Website care plans
Do you need a care plan after launch?
Optional and cancellable, with no contract.
Werehouse Media website care plans come in three tiers, from £49 to £149 a month, and the difference between them is how much change each month includes. None has a contract or a minimum term.
| Basic | Standard | Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | £49 a month | £79 a month | £149 a month |
| Hosting, SSL and backups | Included | Included | Included |
| Uptime monitoring and security patching | Included | Included | Included |
| Changes each month | Small text or image swaps | An hour of changes | Three hours of changes, plus content updates |
| Performance checks | Not included | Quarterly | Quarterly |
| Priority response | No | No | Yes |
| Right when | The site rarely changes and you want it kept safe | A few updates a month: prices, staff, opening hours | The site changes every week, or it carries seasonal content |
Every published price is on the price list.
Straight answers
Common questions.
How much does website maintenance cost in the UK?
Small business website care typically runs £30 to £150 a month in our own reading of published UK prices, depending on how much is included and how quickly changes are turned around. Werehouse Media care starts at £49 a month with no contract and includes hosting. Hosting on its own is optional, from £9 a month.
Do I have to take a care plan?
No. It is optional, and so is hosting. Every build includes 30 days of fixes after launch regardless, and you own the domain, the code and every account outright, so the site keeps working whether or not you continue with anything.
What is the difference between hosting and website care?
Hosting is where the site lives, the server that serves it to visitors. Care is the human work of keeping the site current and correct: content changes, updates, backups and monitoring. Every plan includes hosting, which is also sold on its own from £9 a month for clients who do not need ongoing changes.
Can I cancel any time?
Yes. There is no contract and no minimum term. Cancelling does not take the site down, because the domain, the code and the hosting account are in your name.
Will you keep my website up to date with Google's changes?
The technical foundations are built to stay correct: structure, speed, structured data and mobile behaviour. Speed is checked against Google's Core Web Vitals guidance, which asks for the main content to load within 2.5 seconds. Google changes its ranking systems several times a year, and its own guide to core updates says "most sites don't need to worry about core updates and may not even realize one has happened." What care does not do is promise rankings. Anyone selling a monthly plan on the promise of keeping you ahead of algorithm updates is selling an outcome they cannot control.
What care actually prevents
Why website speed costs you customers
Core Web Vitals without the jargon, and what slow costs in enquiries.
Why is my website not showing up on Google?
Eight causes, in the order to check them.
What a website costs in the UK
Including the running costs owners forget until the renewal lands.
Squarespace or a web designer?
When the builder is genuinely the right answer, and when it is not.
Next step
Keep it, or leave it alone.
Tell us how often the site actually needs changing and we will tell you honestly whether a plan is worth it. Sometimes the answer is that it is not.