Website maintenance plans that keep your site fast, secure, and actually working
Website maintenance is the ongoing work that keeps a live site updated, backed up, secure, and fast after launch. BlakSheep Creative handles it on a flat monthly plan starting at $97. Every plan includes our cell phone number, not a ticket queue. We are first responders, so 24/7/365 is already how we work.
What this page covers
- What website maintenance actually includes, in plain terms
- Our three published plans and what each one costs
- Why every plan comes with our cell number instead of a ticket portal
- How we catch problems before you or your customers notice
- What is not included, stated up front
- Answers to the questions people ask us most
Most small business sites in Livingston Parish and greater Baton Rouge were built once and then left alone. The plugins keep updating themselves. The backups nobody set up keep not existing. Then a form stops sending, or a page goes blank on a Friday afternoon, and the person who built the site has moved on. That gap is what these plans close.
Plans start at $97 a month, and every one includes our cell number. Send us your URL and we will audit the current state for free before you commit to anything.
What website maintenance services actually include
Maintenance is not one task. It is a short list of jobs that have to happen on a schedule, forever, or the site slowly degrades.
Here is the honest breakdown of what the work is:
| Job | Why it matters | How often |
|---|---|---|
| Core, theme, and plugin updates | Outdated plugins are the most common way WordPress sites get compromised | Weekly or monthly by plan |
| Offsite backups | Your host’s backup is on your host. If the host is the problem, so is the backup | Daily |
| Uptime monitoring | You should not find out from a customer that your site is down | Every 5 minutes |
| Security scanning | Catches injected files and modified core before they spread | Daily |
| Performance checks | Core Web Vitals affect rankings and conversion rates | Monthly or quarterly by plan |
| Error log review | Real problems announce themselves in logs long before they surface on the page | Monthly |
| Monthly report | What we did, what we found, what needs your decision | Monthly |
The last two are where most maintenance plans quietly stop. Running updates is easy to automate. Reading what the site is telling you afterward is the part that takes a person.
Our website maintenance plans and pricing
We publish our prices. You will not get a mystery quote or a discovery call before you can find out what this costs.
Essential Plan: $97 per month
For brochure sites and small business sites that need to stay current and safe.
- Monthly core, theme, and plugin updates
- Daily offsite backups, 30 day retention
- 24/7 uptime monitoring with alerts
- Daily malware and security scanning
- SSL and domain expiry monitoring
- Monthly maintenance report
- 30 minutes of content edits per month
- Our cell number, 24/7/365
Professional Plan: $197 per month
Our most popular plan. For sites that generate leads and cannot afford to be broken.
Everything in Essential, plus:
- Weekly updates with a visual check before and after
- Daily backups, 90 day retention
- Quarterly Core Web Vitals tuning
- Broken link and 404 monitoring
- Quarterly WCAG accessibility scan
- Error log review with fixes, not just a list
- 2 hours of content or dev time per month
- Our cell number, 24/7/365
Managed Plan: $397 per month
For revenue-critical sites, membership sites, and stores.
Everything in Professional, plus:
- Staging environment, updates tested before they touch production
- Monthly performance and Core Web Vitals monitoring
- Monthly accessibility scan with remediation
- Schema and technical SEO health monitoring
- 5 hours of content or dev time per month
- Our cell number, 24/7/365
- Quarterly strategy call
Pay for a year up front and get two months free on any plan. Every plan is month to month otherwise. No 12 month lock-in, no cancellation fee, no penalty for leaving.
Not sure which plan fits? Tell us what the site does and how much it matters when it goes down. We will point you at the right tier, including the cheapest one if that is the honest answer.
You get a cell phone number, not a ticket queue
Every plan includes our direct cell number. The same number, every time, on every tier.
Most maintenance providers route you into a portal, a form, or a shared inbox, then measure themselves on how fast they answer it during business hours. Your site does not only break during business hours.
We are first responders. Being reachable at two in the morning is not a premium tier we invented for a pricing table. It is how we already work, and it is why availability is not something we charge extra for.
What happens when something actually breaks
A maintenance plan is worth exactly what it does on a bad day.
If your site goes down, our monitoring tells us before it tells you. We start work on the restore without waiting for you to call. If a plugin update breaks a layout, we roll it back from the same day’s backup and then fix the underlying conflict rather than leaving the plugin frozen at an old version.
If your site is compromised, cleanup is included on Professional and Managed. On Essential it is quoted separately, because a real compromise is a multi-day job and we would rather price it honestly than bury it.
How we find problems before you do
This is the part that separates a maintenance plan from a plugin that emails you.
We manage a fleet of client sites from one dashboard, which means a plugin that breaks on one site gets caught before it reaches the rest. We run automated accessibility audits against real browser rendering, not a checklist. And we read the error logs.
A recent example from our own site: a single misconfigured setting was firing a PHP warning on almost every page load. Nothing visibly broken, no customer complaint, nothing in any plugin’s dashboard. The server log showed 2,802 of them in a few hours. We traced it to a stored setting holding the wrong data type, corrected it, and confirmed the fix by reading the value back rather than trusting the save.
Nobody would have reported that. It would have kept running forever. That is what log review is for.
What is not included
Stated plainly so there are no surprises on your invoice.
- Hosting. We can manage your host or move you to ours, but hosting is billed separately.
- New page builds and redesigns. Those are project work, quoted separately.
- Content writing beyond your included monthly time.
- Paid ad management, SEO campaigns, and social media. Those are separate services.
- Custom development beyond your included monthly time.
If a request runs past your included time, we tell you before we start it, with a number attached.
Website maintenance questions we get asked
These are the questions that come up on almost every call, answered the way we would answer them on the phone.
How much should I pay someone to maintain my website?
For a small business site, $95 to $300 per month is the normal range in 2026. Under about $50 a month you are usually buying automated plugin updates with no human review. Over $500 a month you should be getting dedicated development hours, not just maintenance. Our plans run $97 to $397.
What does website maintenance include?
At minimum: software updates, offsite backups, uptime monitoring, and security scanning. A good plan adds performance monitoring, error log review, and a report that tells you what actually happened. Ask any provider for a sample report before you sign up. It tells you quickly how much of the work is automated.
Can I hire someone to manage my website if you did not build it?
Yes. Most of our maintenance clients came to us with a site someone else built. We start with an audit of the current state, tell you what we found, and fix anything urgent before the first month’s plan work begins.
How long does website maintenance take each month?
The scheduled work runs 1 to 4 hours per month depending on plan and site size. You do not spend any of that time. The only thing we need from you is a decision when we find something that needs one.
Do I really need website maintenance if my site is working fine?
A site that is working fine today is running the same plugin versions that will be out of date next month. Maintenance is not about fixing what is visibly broken. It is about the compromise you avoid and the backup that exists when you need it.
What is a website maintenance plan, exactly?
A flat monthly fee covering a defined list of recurring tasks and a defined response time. The important parts are what is on the list and how fast someone answers. Everything else is packaging.
Do you work with businesses outside Louisiana?
Yes. The work is remote. We are based in Denham Springs and serve Livingston Parish and Baton Rouge in person when it helps, but most maintenance clients we have never met face to face.
Get your site on a maintenance plan
Send us your URL. We will run a free audit of the current state, tell you what we find, and recommend a plan. If the answer is that you do not need one, we will say that too.
Send us your URL and we will tell you what we find. Free audit of the current state, a recommendation, and a straight answer. If you do not need a plan, we will say that too.
Veteran-owned. Published pricing. Our cell number on every plan. Cancel anytime.
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