Hosting & care
Where the site lives, and who keeps it current.
By SimonUpdated 4 September 2026
One monthly figure that pays for fast hosting and keeps the site up to date with the technology around it — browsers, Google, plugins, security. Small fixes included.
Hosting & care
from £50 /month
Monthly. No setup fee, no minimum term, no exit fee.
A starting price. Bigger catalogues, custom stacks and heavier traffic cost more to host and look after, and the figure is agreed in writing before anything moves. Correct at 4 September 2026.
What it covers
Everything a site needs to stay a good site.
Fast managed hosting and SSL
Platform, plugin and security updates
Daily off-site backups and uptime monitoring
Small fixes and content tweaks as they come up
Kept current with browser and Google changes
What it does not cover
And what it deliberately is not.
Every care plan has a boundary. Most do not say where it is until you cross it.
New pages, new features and redesigns - that is project work
SEO, ad management and campaigns - that is what a growth block is for
Anything that takes days rather than minutes
Third-party licences and subscriptions you already pay for
Content writing and photography
A small fix is minutes, not days: text and image changes, a broken link, a form that stopped sending, a plugin conflict after an update. Anything bigger is project work or growth hours, and I would rather draw that line here than argue about it in March.
Response time is one working day, and that is a promise rather than an aspiration.
Locally
Looking after sites across Greater Manchester.
Most of the sites on this plan belong to businesses within about twenty miles of Manchester — trades, retailers, practices — plus two in Northern Ireland and one in the Republic. The flat fee is deliberate: a thousand-product shop is more work to look after than a five-page trade site, and charging the same for both means I never have a reason to argue with a client about which tier a broken contact form belongs in.
That form is worth naming, because it is the most expensive failure a small business website has. When it stops sending, nothing looks wrong from the outside — the site is up, the page is perfect, and every enquiry is quietly discarded. Uptime monitoring will not catch it. Somebody noticing is the entire point of the small-fixes half of this plan.
If you want the market context, there is a guide here on what website maintenance costs in the UK and another on what hosting actually costs — both with these prices in them and the ranges other providers charge.
Written by Simon, who answers the emails.
Straight answers
Questions about hosting.
Can you host a site you did not build?
Usually, yes — after a quick health check. WordPress and static sites move easily; anything unusual we talk through first.
What counts as a small fix?
Text and image changes, a broken link, a form that stopped sending, a plugin conflict after an update. Anything that takes minutes rather than days. Bigger jobs are what the growth hours are for.
What if I want to leave?
Hosting is monthly. You own the site and the domain; I hand over a full copy and the access details. No exit fees.
Is hosting included in the growth block?
No — they are different things. Hosting keeps the site up and current from £50 a month; a growth block is time spent making it earn more. Most clients have both; hosting on its own is perfectly fine.
What is the difference between hosting and website maintenance?
Hosting is where the site lives. Maintenance is somebody keeping it working — updates, backups, monitoring, fixes. A £5 hosting plan is genuinely £5 of hosting and zero pounds of anybody caring what happens to your site. This plan is both, from £50 a month.
How much should website maintenance cost in the UK?
£20 to £100 a month for a small business site, and £150 to £500 or more for a large or e-commerce one. This plan starts at £50 and is quoted from the same things that move anybody else’s: how big the site is, how much traffic it takes, and how much there is to keep working. The maintenance cost guide sets out what each level should include.
Why “from” £50 rather than a flat £50?
Because a five-page brochure site and a seventeen-thousand-product shop do not cost the same to host or to look after, and pretending otherwise would mean one of them subsidising the other. The figure is set by how big the site is, how much traffic it takes and how much there is to keep working — agreed in writing before anything moves. Most small business sites sit at or near the starting price.
Where are the backups stored?
Off-site, daily. Off-site is the load-bearing word — a backup on the same server as the site is not a backup, it is a copy that dies with it.
Read next
What this should cost, written out.
With the market ranges, what a plan should include, and how a site fails when it has none.
Want the site looked after properly?
Send me the address. If it is a straightforward move I will say so and we can have it on hosting and care from £50 a month within the week.