Updates, checked
WordPress and every plugin updated each month, then the forms, checkout and bookings tested so an update never quietly breaks something.
Website Maintenance and Hosting in Cumbria
WordPress maintenance and managed hosting for businesses, councils and charities across Cumbria. We keep your website updated, secure, backed up and monitored, and fix things when they go wrong, from our office in Millom. Standard maintenance with hosting is £25 a month or £250 a year plus VAT.
Service · Website Maintenance
A website is never really finished
A website is built from WordPress itself, PHP, a theme and often twenty or more plugins, all updated by their makers every few weeks. Leave them for six months and they drift: a contact form stops sending, a checkout fails or a security hole stays open. Most Cumbrian businesses only find out when a customer tells them. Maintenance stops that happening.
Security
Known vulnerabilities patched promptly, logins rate-limited, SSL certificates watched and file permissions checked.
Daily backups
Your whole site backed up every day, so a bad update or a hacked plugin can be rolled back quickly.
Uptime monitoring
Your site watched around the clock. If it goes down we know straight away and start fixing it before you have to ring.
Small changes included
Fair-use content changes such as new opening hours, a swapped photo or a news post, without a separate invoice each time.
Managed hosting
Your site hosted on our own managed servers, so hosting, updates and support all come from one company.
Hosting
One local company for your hosting and your support
The sites we look after run on Technophobia's own managed servers, monitored and backed up by us. You are not stuck between a hosting company, a developer and a plugin seller when something breaks. You ring Millom, and the people who answer can actually fix it.
Tested first
Big updates are tried on a copy of your site before they go live.
Monthly report
A short note of what was updated and checked each month.
No hour-counting
Sensible support requests are part of the service.
Why it matters
Most website problems start with an update nobody did
Security holes in websites are usually found in out-of-date plugins. Once a fix is published, attackers go looking for sites that have not applied it. Regular, tested updates close those gaps quickly and keep your site compatible with newer versions of PHP, so it does not suddenly stop working when your host upgrades.
Plans
Standard or Full maintenance, monthly or yearly
Standard maintenance is £25 a month or £250 a year plus VAT, and covers updates, security monitoring, daily backups, hosting and reasonable support requests. Full maintenance is £50 a month or £500 a year plus VAT, and adds content updates, accessibility re-checks and regular ranking checks. Paying yearly gives you two months free.
Shops and bookings
Extra checks where money changes hands
For WooCommerce shops and booking sites we test the checkout, payments, order emails and availability after every update. West Lakes Stays, Sultan Delights and Kirksanton Village Hall all take payments online, so a broken checkout is not an option.
Councils
Maintenance that keeps you accessible
Parish and town councils must meet the public sector accessibility regulations. Our council maintenance re-checks accessibility after updates, so a new plugin version cannot quietly undo your WCAG 2.2 AA compliance. We look after council websites across West and South Cumbria.
Taking over
We maintain sites we did not build, too
If your web designer has moved on or your site has been left to itself, we can take it over. We start with a health check, tell you what needs fixing and give you a fixed price for any catch-up work before your monthly maintenance begins.
Hosting
Fast, reliable hosting run by us
Hosting is included with maintenance. Your site sits on our managed servers with SSL, daily backups and monitoring, and if it ever needs more resources we sort that out for you. No separate hosting bill and no renewal surprises.
£25/mo
Standard maintenance + VAT
£50/mo
Full maintenance + VAT
Daily
Backups
2 months
Free when you pay yearly
Who we look after
Websites we maintain across Cumbria
Holiday lets
Online shops
Village halls
Councils
Trades
Hospitality
Getting started
Moving your website maintenance to us
Health check
We look at your site, its plugins, hosting and backups, and tell you plainly what state it is in.
Catch up
Anything out of date is fixed at a fixed price agreed with you first, and the site moves to our hosting if you want it to.
Monthly care
Updates, backups, monitoring and support every month, with a short report so you can see what was done.
Common questions
Straight answers
How much does website maintenance cost?
Standard maintenance, including hosting, is £25 a month or £250 a year plus VAT. Full maintenance is £50 a month or £500 a year plus VAT and adds content updates, accessibility re-checks and ranking checks.
Is hosting included?
Yes. Sites we maintain are hosted on our own managed servers, with SSL, daily backups and monitoring included in the price.
Can you maintain a website you did not build?
Yes. We start with a health check, fix anything that is out of date at an agreed price, and then look after it every month like any other site.
What happens if my site goes down?
Our monitoring alerts us straight away and we start investigating, usually before you have noticed. Daily backups mean we can roll back quickly if needed.
Are content changes included?
Small changes such as text, photos, opening hours and news posts are included under a fair-use policy. Larger pieces of work are quoted separately and only done with your approval.
Do you only work with Cumbrian businesses?
Most of our clients are in Cumbria and we are based in Millom, but because maintenance is done remotely we look after websites anywhere in the UK.
Ready when you are
Let's build what's next
Want someone local to look after your website? Call us on 01229 774591 or send a message, and we will start by checking the health of your site.