Website Maintenance Plan · Care Plans
Your website was built once. It needs care every month.
Updates, daily backups, security monitoring, uptime alerts — handled, monthly, without you thinking about it.
Health audit first · know exactly what your site needs · then the right Care Plan tier.
What Neglect Costs
An unmaintained site fails on a schedule
0–3
months
Invisible degradation — updates pile up, backups silently fail.
3–6
months
Functionality breaks and known vulnerabilities sit exposed.
6–12
months
A security incident or compatibility failure becomes probable.
12+
months
SSL expiry, PHP conflicts — potential complete failure.
The Care Plan
Eight things your site needs every month
Core updates
Security patches within 72 hours; major releases staged and tested first.
Plugin updates
Risk-stratified: critical in 24h, high-risk plugins on staging before production.
Daily backups
Off-site, 30–90 day retention — a broken site is a 10-minute restore.
Security scanning
Daily malware scans, active firewall, login protection, file integrity alerts.
Uptime monitoring
60-second alerts — we know before any client does.
SSL & domain watch
Expiry alerts at 30/14/7 days — never a browser security warning.
Performance checks
Monthly PageSpeed audit catches drift before it costs rankings.
Search Console review
Monthly crawl-error and indexing review keeps pages discoverable.
“A backup that has not been restored at least once is not a backup — it is a file that may or may not be restorable when needed.”
✓ Daily full backups — database and all files
✓ Off-site storage, never on the same server
✓ 30–90 day retention for late-discovered issues
✓ Quarterly restore tests, documented
The Plans
Three tiers. Every one covers the fundamentals.
Every plan includes a monthly report: work completed, backup status, security results, uptime summary. Ask about tiers on the audit call — one avoided incident typically pays for months of coverage.
Essential
For simple service business sites
✓ Monthly core, plugin, and theme updates
✓ Daily off-site backups, 30-day retention
✓ Uptime monitoring with 60-second alerts
✓ Weekly security scan and monthly report
Professional
For active sites with SEO investment
✓ Weekly risk-stratified updates with staging
✓ Daily security scanning plus firewall
✓ SSL/domain watch and quarterly restore tests
✓ Monthly Search Console and performance review
Agency
For multi-site and high-stakes properties
✓ Everything in Professional, up to 3 sites
✓ Monthly content-update hours included
✓ Quarterly GEO, schema, and technical SEO review
✓ 4-hour emergency response commitment
If your site goes down at 2am, we know within 60 seconds.
Not when a client emails you. HTTP checks, content verification, response-time warnings, SSL and domain expiry alerts — monitored continuously, answered by a human.
60s
from incident to alert — on every Care Plan site
See It In Motion
A month of care, compressed
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Final video: a month on a Care Plan — updates staged and applied, a backup restoring in minutes, a firewall blocking a brute-force run, the monthly report arriving. “The care your site gets while you run the business.”
How It Works
Audit first. Care from a known baseline.
01
Health audit
Update debt, backup gaps, security posture, expiry dates, performance — the full current state of your site.
02
Onboarding
Monitoring configured, backups verified, staging set up, baseline documented.
03
Monthly rhythm
Updates on protocol, scans daily, reports monthly — and a team already familiar with your site when you need changes.
Sites built by zapical enroll from launch day — no audit needed. Slow site too? Pair care with Speed Optimisation.
Pricing
Transparent pricing. Start today.
Buy now and we’ll begin with your onboarding brief — or start with the free call and decide after. Same price either way.
Starter
Care Plan Essential
$150/month
Monthly updates, daily backups, uptime alerts, weekly scans, monthly report.
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Most popular
Care Plan Professional
$280/month
Weekly staged updates, daily security + WAF, restore tests, GSC + speed review.
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Full scope
Care Plan Agency
$450/month
Professional for 3 sites + content hours, GEO reviews, 4-hour emergency SLA.
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Custom
Custom scope
Let’s talk
Bigger build? Multiple services? Something the tiers don’t cover? Tell us the scope — we’ll price it precisely.
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Tell us about your project
Rough scope is fine — a human replies within one business day with a precise quote or a call link.
Questions
Website maintenance, answered
What does website maintenance actually include?
Eight ongoing activities: WordPress core updates, plugin updates, theme updates, daily off-site backups, security scanning, uptime monitoring, performance checks, and monthly Search Console review — each on its own protocol and cadence.
What happens if a site just isn’t maintained?
It fails on a fairly predictable schedule: invisible degradation in the first three months, functionality loss and security exposure by six, a probable incident by twelve, and beyond that SSL expiry and compatibility failures that can take the site down entirely.
How do you update plugins without breaking the site?
Risk stratification: critical security patches within 24 hours, low-risk utilities weekly, high-risk plugins (WooCommerce, forms, builders) tested on staging first — and every update follows a pre-update backup, so a bad update is a 10-minute restore.
What makes your backup approach different?
Daily full backups to off-site storage with 30–90 day retention — and quarterly restore tests. A backup that’s never been restored is just a file that might work; we verify ours do.
How do I start?
With a website health audit — it documents your site’s update debt, backup gaps, security posture, and performance, then recommends the right Care Plan tier. Sites zapical built can enroll from launch day without an audit.
Know exactly what your site needs. Then never think about it again.
Book the health audit, see the risk in plain terms, and let the Care Plan handle the rest — updates, backups, security, and monitoring, month after month.
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