Illumi

Service

Website maintenance

A website isn't a picture you hang on the wall and forget. WordPress ships updates every week, and an un-updated site is the most common reason sites get hacked. Maintenance is work someone has to do — either us or you.

Plans from
€40/month
Backups
Weekly
Response
Within 24 hours
Commitment
None
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Sopharma Business Towers · site under maintenance

What happens

One month of maintenance, day by day.

Maintenance isn't a promise to be around. It's a schedule that runs whether or not you've thought about your site this month. This is what it looks like.

Every day — a check that the site is responding A backup, stored off the server Core, theme and plugin updates, after testing A monthly report of what's been done

Scope

What maintenance covers.

A plan isn't insurance against everything. Below is what's included, so there's no argument later about what you expected and what we promised.

UpdatesWordPress core, theme and plugins. First on a copy, then on the live site — not all at once and not blindly.
BackupsWeekly, stored off the server. Restoring is part of the plan, not an extra service.
MonitoringChecking that the site is responding. If it goes down, we find out — not you, from a customer.
SecurityWatching for suspicious files and changes, strong passwords, restricted access to the admin.
SpeedRegular checks of loading time and Core Web Vitals, with corrections if they get worse.
Small changesChanging a text, a photo or a phone number, or adding a news item. The hours depend on the plan.
Technical SEO checksThat the sitemap updates, that there are no broken links and that Search Console isn't flagging problems.
ReportOnce a month you get what's been done and what's coming up. Without it, you're paying blind.

The flip side

What happens if nobody does it.

This isn't scaremongering, just a description of the cases people most often come to us with when their site was built elsewhere. Each of these only becomes visible once it has already happened.

A hacked siteAn un-updated plugin with a known vulnerability. The site starts redirecting to other people's pages, and Google flags it as dangerous.
A white screen after an updateAn automatic update breaks a theme or plugin. Without a backup, rolling back is manual work with an uncertain outcome.
An expired domainA forgotten renewal. The site and company email stop on the same day, and the domain can be bought by someone else.
Gone from GoogleAn accidentally ticked “discourage search engines” box or a broken sitemap. Rankings drop quietly, weeks before you notice.
The form doesn't sendA change of hosting or mail settings. The form looks as if it works, but the enquiries don't arrive anywhere.
An expired certificateThe browser shows a “not secure” warning. Visitors leave before they've seen what you offer.

Plans

Three tiers, depending on how much you need.

Prices are monthly, excluding VAT, on a contract with no minimum term. You can stop whenever you like — the site stays yours and you get the latest backup.

I

Basic

from0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9€ / month

  • —Updates twice a month
  • —Weekly backup
  • —Uptime monitoring
  • —One hour of small changes
  • —Response within 24 hours

II

Extended

from0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9€ / month

  • —Everything in the first tier
  • —Speed and Core Web Vitals monitoring
  • —Technical SEO checks
  • —Two and a half hours of changes
  • —Monthly report

III

Full

from0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9€ / month

  • —Everything in the second tier
  • —Priority response
  • —Five hours of changes
  • —Quarterly technical audit
  • —Phone support outside working hours

Online shops

A shop needs more attention.

With a shop, every hour of downtime means missed orders, and updates touch both payments and delivery. That's why maintenance for an online shop is quoted separately, based on the scope of that particular shop.

Checkout checkAfter every update we go through the whole journey — from product to confirmation — live, with a test order.
Payments and deliveryThat the link to the bank and the courier works, and that statuses are fed back into the shop.
More frequent backupsDaily, because between two weekly backups you lose real orders, not just content.

Questions

About maintenance.

If your question isn't here, call us — we answer by phone too.

+359 882 95 89 89
How much does website maintenance cost?

The Basic plan is from €40 a month, Extended from €70, Full from €140. All prices exclude VAT and are paid monthly.

For an online shop, the price is quoted separately, because the scope is different.

Do you maintain sites you didn't build?

Yes, and that's the common case. We start with a review of the site — versions, plugins, security, speed and backups — and tell you what state it's in.

If we find something that needs fixing before we take over maintenance, we list it separately with a price. We don't take on a site whose condition we haven't seen.

Is there a contract and a minimum term?

There's a contract setting out what's included, the response time and what the plan doesn't cover. There's no minimum term.

You can stop at any time. You get the latest backup and all the access details, if you didn't already have them.

What happens if the site gets hacked?

If the site is on a maintenance plan with us, the clean-up and restoring from backup are included. That's why we keep the backups off the server — a compromised server usually means compromised backups on it too.

If the site isn't on a plan, we still help, but as a separate service billed by the hour.

Are content changes included?

Yes, within the hours in your plan — changing a text, a photo or a phone number, adding a news item or a product. Unused hours don't roll over to the next month.

Bigger work, such as a new section or a new page type, is quoted separately.

Does it include hosting and a domain?

Not by default. If you like, we take those on too — then we also keep track of renewals, so the domain doesn't expire at the wrong moment.

Either way, the domain stays registered to you, not to us.

Will maintenance improve my Google rankings?

Not directly. Maintenance protects the technical condition — speed, availability, no broken links — and those are conditions without which optimization doesn't work. But ranking itself is separate work.

If your goal is more visitors from search, see SEO.

Next step

Let's look at your site.

Send us the address and we'll tell you what state it's in — versions, security, speed and backups. The review is free and commits you to nothing.

+359 882 95 89 89 office@illumi.bg

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