Topic
What does website maintenance cost, and what should it include?
What upkeep costs, what it includes, how often to do it, and when maintenance alone is not enough.
Maintenance is the recurring work that keeps a site online, accurate, secure, fast and easy to find, and the part most plans leave out is the search work that brings in visitors. The guides below give the published price ranges, the tasks by how often each one comes around, and a monthly routine you can run alone. Theo hosts and secures the site on every plan and includes the search work on Starter and Pro.
6 guides
Guides on this topic
Website Maintenance Cost in 2026: Monthly Prices by Site Type and Provider
What a small business pays each month and each year to keep a website running, with published ranges by site type, by provider and by invoice line, three worked example budgets, and what Theo charges for hosting plus the ongoing work.
Read →
Small Business Website Maintenance in 2026: Costs, Tasks and Who Should Do Them
A plain guide to keeping a small business website accurate, secure, fast and findable: the tasks by cadence, what agencies and Theo charge, a 30-minute monthly routine an owner can run alone, and the work worth handing off.
Read →
Website Maintenance Checklist for 2026: 45 Tasks, Daily to Annual
The tasks that keep a small business website working, accurate and findable, grouped by how often each one needs doing, with the time each pass takes, a free tool for the checks that need one and who should own the list. Copy the schedule table as a template, or hand the list to whoever runs the site.
Read →
SEO Maintenance: What It Is, What It Costs, and a Checklist for Small Business
The recurring search work a small business website needs after launch: what each part does, how often it comes around, how a freelancer, an agency and Theo each price it, and a monthly, quarterly and yearly checklist an owner can copy.
Read →
How Often Should You Update Your Website: A Schedule for Small Businesses
A plain schedule for keeping a small business website current, from the same-day fix to the redesign, plus how to find the pages that need work, how to update them without losing what already ranks, and how to tell whether the update did anything.
Read →
What Is Website Maintenance? What It Includes, Why It Matters and What It Costs
A plain-English guide to website maintenance for small business owners: the definition, the 13 tasks it covers, the four types, the benefits, a same-day-to-yearly schedule, typical prices, and where upkeep ends and website management begins.
Read →