Service · Hosting and maintenance
Hosting and maintenance
Your site hosted, monitored, secured and kept current, with small edits handled for you. One monthly plan, so you never have to think about servers, updates or renewals.
Short answer
Website hosting and maintenance at Chamberlin Design is $199 a month for most sites, or $199 to $299 for larger ones. It covers hosting, monitoring, security and your small edits, and most small edits come back within 24 hours. Changes outside the plan are $85 an hour with a $50 minimum. Prefer no monthly plan? A clean upfront build installed on your own hosting works too.
Handled for you.
Send a text or an email with what you need. That is the whole process.
Hosting
Fast hosting on a global network, with your SSL certificate set up and renewed automatically.
Monitoring
Uptime and errors watched, so issues get caught and fixed early.
Security
Custom sites have no plugins to patch, and the framework and dependencies stay up to date.
Small edits
Text, photos, hours, prices and new sections. Changes under 20 minutes each, up to 10 a month, are included.
Search basics kept current
Sitemap, structured data and listings updated when your site changes.
One person to call
You reach the person who built your site, not a ticket queue.
What it costs.
One monthly price. No setup fee for the plan.
| Plan | Monthly | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Small Business site | $199 | Hosting, monitoring, security and small edits |
| Growing Business site | $199 to $299 | Everything above, plus priority support |
| Changes beyond the plan | $85 an hour, $50 minimum | Anything over 20 minutes, or past 10 revisions in a month |
| No monthly plan | $0 | A clean upfront build, installed on your own hosting |
Prices from the Chamberlin Design pricing page.
Less upkeep, more improving.
On a WordPress site, a lot of maintenance is patching plugins and themes before something breaks. Custom sites built on Next.js do not have plugins, so there is far less of that. Maintenance turns into keeping your content current, watching speed and uptime, and making small improvements that bring in more inquiries.
That is why the monthly plan includes your edits. A site that stays accurate, with this season's hours, prices and photos, earns more trust from customers and from search engines.
From the builder
Most of my clients never log in to anything. They text or email what they want changed, and it comes back within a day. That is the point of the plan: your site stays current without becoming another job on your list.
Questions
What does website maintenance include?
Hosting, SSL, uptime and error monitoring, framework and security updates, and your small edits. On our plan, changes under 20 minutes each, up to 10 a month, are included.
How much should website maintenance cost per month?
It depends on what is included. Hosting alone can be a few dollars a month, while plans that include edits and monitoring usually run from about $50 to a few hundred dollars. Ours is $199 a month for most sites, with edits included.
Can I make edits myself?
On sites we host, edits go through us, which keeps the site fast and consistent. Send what you need and most small changes come back within 24 hours.
What if I want to leave the plan?
Once the build fee is paid in full, you own the final delivered website. If you leave, you get a handover with your source code, content and data so it can be hosted anywhere.
Do you host sites built on WordPress, Wix or Squarespace?
The plan is built for sites I make. If your current site is on another platform, the usual path is a redesign onto a custom build, and your old URLs get redirected so you keep your search history.